Child Care (Amendment) Act 2024

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Number 19 of 2024

CHILD CARE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definition

2. Amendment of section 2(1) of Principal Act

3. Amendment of section 29(5B) of Principal Act

4. Amendment of section 58A of Principal Act

5. Amendment of section 58B of Principal Act

6. Amendment of section 58C(2) of Principal Act

7. Amendment of section 58D of Principal Act

8. Publication of decisions under Part VIIA

9. Amendment of section 58F of Principal Act

10. Amendment of section 58J of Principal Act

11. Improvement notice and improvement order

12. Immediate action notice and immediate action order

13. Temporary prohibition order

14. Closure order

15. Appeal against closure order

16. Amendment of section 58K(1) of Principal Act

17. Amendment of section 58L of Principal Act

18. Transitional provisions (Part VIIA)

19. Amendment of Schedule 1 to National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012

20. Amendment of Schedule 2 to Children First Act 2015

21. Amendment of Childcare Support Act 2018

22. Repeals

23. Short title, collective citation and commencement

Acts Referred to

Child and Family Agency Act 2013 (No. 40)

Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17)

Child Care Acts 1991 to 2022

Childcare Support Act 2018 (No. 11)

Children First Act 2015 (No. 36)

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 (No. 47)

Number 19 of 2024

CHILD CARE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2024

An Act to provide for additional enforcement measures in respect of the provision, in contravention of Part VIIA of the Child Care Act 1991 , of prescribed early years services; to confer additional enforcement powers on the Child and Family Agency in respect of those measures; to provide for the regulation of childminding services; to repeal provisions for exemption, in certain cases, from the application of Part VIIA of the Child Care Act 1991 to the care of children; to provide for transitional arrangements; for those and other purposes to amend the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 , the Children First Act 2015 and the Childcare Support Act 2018 ; and to provide for related matters.

[8th July, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: