Local Government Act, 2001
|
Regulations, orders and directions. |
4.—(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 purposes of enabling any provision 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 (including provisions for the purpose of securing the continuity of any provision of this Act with any provision of any other Act or instrument repealed, revoked, amended or otherwise affected by this Act or by any regulations or order made under it) as may appear to the Minister making the regulation or order to be appropriate for the purposes of this Act or any regulations or order made under it. | ||
(3) A regulation or an order under this Act may— | ||
(a) apply to local authorities generally, to any class or classes of local authorities specified in the regulations or the order or to a particular local authority so specified, | ||
(b) contain different provisions in relation to different local authorities or to different parts of the administrative area of a local authority, | ||
(c) provide for the giving of directions by the Minister (including directions amending or revoking any such directions). | ||
(4) (a) Except where paragraph (c) applies, every order and regulation made by the Minister or any other Minister of the Government under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made. | ||
(b) If after an order or regulation is laid under paragraph (a) a resolution annulling the order or regulation is passed by either House of the Oireachtas within the next 21 days on which the House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under it. | ||
(c) Paragraph (a) does not apply to an order or regulation which is required by this Act to be approved in draft by resolution of both Houses of the Oireachtas or to an order under section 199 (8). | ||
(5) Other than an order under section 7 , the Minister may by order, amend or revoke any order under this Act including an order made under this subsection. | ||
(6) (a) The Minister may by direction amend or revoke a direction given by him or her under this Act (including a direction under this subsection). | ||
(b) A person to whom a direction is given under this Act shall comply with that direction. | ||
(7) This section does not apply to a provisional order under section 72 (1). |