Local Government Act, 1998
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Regulations, orders and directions. |
2.—(1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed or for the purpose of enabling any provision of this Act to have full effect. | |
(2) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Act, a regulation or order under this Act may provide for such incidental, consequential, supplementary or transitional provisions as may appear to the Minister to be appropriate for the purposes of this Act or any regulations or order made thereunder. | ||
(3) If in any respect any difficulty arises in bringing any provision of this Act into operation or in relation to the operation of any such provision, the Minister may by regulations do anything which appears to him or her to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of removing that difficulty, for bringing that provision into operation, or for securing or facilitating its operation, and any such regulations may modify any provision of this Act or any other enactment so far as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes aforesaid but no regulations may be made under this subsection in relation to a provision of this Act after the expiration of 2 years from the commencement of that provision. | ||
(4) Regulations or an order made under this Act may— | ||
(a) apply to local authorities generally or to a specified local authority or local authorities, | ||
(b) contain different provisions in relation to different local authorities. | ||
(5) Every regulation or order under this Act (other than an order under section 8 (9) or 15 (4)) shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation or order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation or order has been laid before it, the regulation or order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. | ||
(6) The Minister may by order amend or revoke an order under this Act (other than an order under section 8 (9) or 15 (4) but including an order under this subsection). | ||
(7) The Minister may give a direction for the purpose of anything mentioned in this Act as being the subject of a direction. | ||
(8) The Minister may give a direction amending or revoking a direction given by him or her under this Act (including a direction under this subsection). | ||
(9) A direction given for the purposes of this Act shall be in writing. |