Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024
Number 7 of 2024
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024
REVISED
Updated to 18 June 2025
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2025 (5/2025), enacted 19 June 2025, and all statutory instruments up to and including Planning and Development Act 2024 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 256 of 2025), made 17 June 2025, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 7 of 2024
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024
REVISED
Updated to 18 June 2025
CONTENTS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title, collective citation and commencement
5. Application of Principal Act to Limerick
Mayor of Limerick
11. Effect of election as Mayor at mayoral by-election on membership of local authority
16. Funding for performance of functions of Mayor
20. Amendments to Principal Act relating to office of Mayor
Other Structural Changes
21. Abolition of office of Cathaoirleach and Leas-Chathaoirleach of council
23. Functions of Príomh Chomhairleoir
24. Leas-Phríomh Chomhairleoir
25. Functions of Leas-Phríomh Chomhairleoir
27. Delegation of functions of Mayor to director general
Additional Functions of Mayor and Mayoral Office Structures
30. Limerick Mayoral and Government Consultative Forum
32. Limerick Mayoral Advisory and Implementation Committee
33. Limerick Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board
34. Limerick Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board Transport Sub-Group
Amendment of Certain Enactments in Connection with Election of Mayor
36. Amendment of Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937
37. Amendment of Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947
39. Amendment of Electoral Act 1997
40. Amendment of European Parliament Elections Act 1997
41. Amendment of Litter Pollution Act 1997
42. Amendment of Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004
43. Amendment of Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006
44. Amendment of Data Protection Act 2018
Plebiscites on Direct Election of Mayors
51. Persons entitled to vote in plebiscite
52. Report to Houses of Oireachtas
53. Cost of holding of plebiscite
54. Repeal of Part 6 of Local Government Act 2019
Removal of Mayor from Office
56. Proposal for removal of Mayor from office
57. Statement of response by Mayor
58. Special meeting to consider proposal
60. Further statement of response and additional information to panel
63. Order for removal of Mayor
Miscellaneous Provisions
65. Amendment of Affordable Housing Act 2021
66. Amendment of section 10 of Housing Finance Agency Act 1981
67. Amendment of section 42B of National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014
68. Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act
69. Amendment of Land Development Agency Act 2021
Enactments for Purposes of Sections 10 and 23
Enactments for Purposes of Sections 10 and 26
Election of Mayor
Preliminary and General
Returning Officer
Manner of voting
Nominations
Agents of candidates
Death of candidate
Postal voting
Voting by Special Voters
Arrangements for Poll
Poll
Arrangement for counting of votes
Rules for counting of votes
Retention, inspection and disposal of documents
Electoral offences
Petitions
Form of Ballot Paper
Application of Principal Act to Limerick
Acts Referred to
Abattoirs Act 1988 (No. 8)
Affordable Housing Act 2021 (No. 25)
Air Pollution Act 1987 (No. 6)
Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (No. 15)
Building Control Act 1990 (No. 3)
Building Societies Act 1989 (No. 17)
Central Bank Act 1971 (No. 24)
Civil Defence Act 2023 (No. 17)
Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 (No. 46)
Control of Dogs Act 1986 (No. 32)
Control of Horses Act 1996 (No. 37)
Coroners Act 1962 (No. 9)
County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Act 2014 (No. 4)
Credit Union Act 1997 (No. 15)
Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018 (No. 9)
Dangerous Substances Act 1972 (No. 10)
Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7)
Derelict Sites Act 1990 (No. 14)
Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 (No. 29)
Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004 (No. 15)
Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006 (No. 33)
Electoral Act 1992 (No. 23)
Electoral Act 1997 (No. 25)
Electoral Reform Act 2022 (No. 30)
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (No. 7)
European Parliament (Irish Constituency Members) Act 2009 (No. 17)
European Parliament Elections Act 1997 (No. 2)
Explosives Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict., c. 17)
Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (No. 28)
Finance Act 1993 (No. 13)
Fire Services Act 1981 (No. 30)
Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (No. 29)
Freedom of Information Act 2014 (No. 30)
Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (No. 26)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 (No. 27)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (No. 18)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 (No. 21)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (No. 22)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21)
Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 (No. 33)
Housing Act 1966 (No. 21)
Housing Act 1988 (No. 28)
Housing Acts 1966 to 2021
Housing Finance Agency Act 1981 (No. 37)
Housing Finance Agency Acts 1981 to 2007
Interpretation Act 2005 (No. 23)
Intoxicating Liquor Act 1953 (No. 30)
Intoxicating Liquor Act 1960 (No. 18)
Land Development Agency Act 2021 (No. 26)
Litter Pollution Act 1997 (No. 12)
Local Authorities (Mutual Assurance) Act 1926 (No. 34)
Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act 1926 (No. 39)
Local Authorities (Traffic Wardens) Act 1975 (No. 14)
Local Authorities (Works) Act 1949 (No. 17)
Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999 (No. 7)
Local Elections (Petitions and Disqualifications) Act 1974 (No. 8)
Local Elections Acts 1963 to 1992
Local Elections Acts 1974 to 2014
Local Government (Financial Provisions) (No. 2) Act 1983 (No. 21)
Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997 (No. 29)
Local Government (Multi-Storey Buildings) Act 1988 (No. 29)
Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1948 (No. 3)
Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1964 (No. 29)
Local Government (Superannuation) Act 1980 (No. 8)
Local Government (Water Pollution) Act 1977 (No. 1)
Local Government Act 1941 (No. 23)
Local Government Act 1991 (No. 11)
Local Government Act 1998 (No. 16)
Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)
Local Government Act 2019 (No. 1)
Local Government Acts 1925 to 2023
Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 (No. 24)
Maritime Safety Act 2005 (No. 11)
Maternity Protection Act 1994 (No. 34)
Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014 (No. 43)
Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Acts 1938 to 2018
National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1954 (No. 37)
National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 (No. 23)
National Treasury Management Agency Acts 1990 to 2022
Official Languages Act 2003 (No. 32)
Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 1994 (No. 21)
Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts 1938 to 1998
Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 (No. 20)
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict., c.93)
Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30)
Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024 (No. 1)
Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict., c. 56.)
Presidential Elections Act 1993 (No. 28)
Prompt Payment of Accounts Act 1997 (No. 31)
Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (No. 14)
Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict., c. 52)
Referendum Act 1994 (No. 12)
Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (No. 28)
Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27)
Roads Act 1993 (No. 14)
Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947 (No. 42)
Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937 (No. 30)
Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)
Statutory Declarations Act 1938 (No. 37)
Succession Act 1965 (No. 27)
Trustee Savings Banks Act 1989 (No. 21)
Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 (No. 33)
Waste Management Act 1996 (No. 10)
Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022 (No. 48)
Water Services Act 2007 (No. 30)
Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 (No. 29)
Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 (No. 38)
Wildlife Act 1976 (No. 39)
Number 7 of 2024
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024
REVISED
Updated to 18 June 2025
An Act to provide for the establishment of an office of mayor for the administrative area of Limerick City and County Council and the election of a person to that office; to provide for the conferral of certain functions on the said mayor; to provide for ancillary structural changes in connection with the governance of that administrative area by Limerick City and County Council; to provide for the holding of plebiscites on the question of providing for the creation of offices of mayors for the administrative areas in relation to which such plebiscites are held and the election by the electors of those administrative areas of persons to such offices; for those purposes to amend the Electoral Act 1992, the Electoral Act 1997, the Litter Pollution Act 1997, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006 and the Electoral Reform Act 2022, to apply with modifications and amend the Local Government Act 2001, and to repeal Part 6 of the Local Government Act 2019; to extend the circumstances within which a person may apply for an affordable dwelling purchase arrangement under the Affordable Housing Act 2021 and for that purpose to amend that Act; to provide for consultation with the Public Appointments Service prior to a declaration under the Local Government Act 2001 in relation to qualifications in respect of certain posts in the local government sector and for that purpose to further amend that Act; to increase the borrowing limit of the Housing Finance Agency and for that purpose to amend the Housing Finance Agency Act 1981; to extend the power of the Minister for Finance to direct the National Treasury Management Agency to pay money to the Land Development Agency in certain circumstances and for that purpose to amend the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014; to provide for the raising of certain funds by the Land Development Agency and for that purpose to amend the Land Development Agency Act 2021; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
[6th March, 2024]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: