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Irish Legislation:
Acts 1922 to date
(Bailii)
Statutory
Instruments 1922-2005 (Bailii)
Acts 1999 to date
(Irlii)
Selected Statutory Instruments
1999 to date (Irlii)
Acts and SIs 1922 to 2005
(Attorney General's office)
Statutory
Instruments of 2007 (AG's Office)
Chronological Tables
(noting amendments to Acts)
(Attorney General's office)
Acts 1997 to date
(Oireachtas)
Irish Proposed Legislation: Bills
1997 to date (Oireachtas)
Senator Feargal Quinn's Site (provides
useful lists of Bills and Acts)
Northern Irish Legislation:
Northern Ireland Legislation (Bailii)
Northern Irish Legislation (HMSO)
Extract from Guide to Irish Law:
Primary Legislation: Acts of the Oireachtas
Approximately forty Acts of the Oireachtas are passed each year. These are available in print from the Government Supplies Agency, which is part of the Office of Public Works - see contact details on the Irish Legal Publishers page.
In electronic form there are various sources:
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute
(Bailii)
Currently this site offers Acts as
enacted from 1922 to date. Amendments are not incorporated into legislation, so great care must be
taken in using this site to search for subsequent amendments of the Acts. Some
pre-1922 legislation which continues to apply in Ireland may be found by going
to the Northern Ireland part of the Bailii site at www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act. An example is the Partnership Act 1890.
The Irish Legal Information Initiative
(Irlii)
This site, managed by Dr John Mee of University College Cork Law Faculty,
complements UCC's contribution to the Bailii project by providing recent
Irish Acts and some other Acts which may not yet appear on the Bailii
site.
The Attorney General’s Office - www.irishstatutebook.ie
or www.irlgov.ie/ag (Choose ‘Irish Statute Book’ near bottom of
page)
This site provides access to the Acts from 1922 to 2005 and crucially also the Chronological
Tables, which list amendments up to 2004. It is also possible to a certain
extent to see whether a particular section of an Act is actually in force by
checking the Commencement Orders section of the Chronological Tables. The
material on this site may also be purchased in CD-ROM forma from the Government Supplies Agency.
The Houses of the Oireachtas
Here you will find all Acts passed from 1997 to date, as well as all Bills published
from 1997 to date. The site lists
legislative history of Bills to date, including links to all relevant
Parliamentary debates.
Some additional information may be found at www.feargalquinn.ie, UCC Law Library and on a fee-paying basis at www.firstlaw.ie
Secondary Legislation: Statutory Instruments
Most subordinate legislation is made by Government Ministers under powers conferred on them by Acts. Approximately 500 pieces of subordinate legislation are passed per year. Electronic access is provided on the Irish Statute Book CD-ROM (see above) and at the following sites:
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute
(Bailii)
Contains subordinate legislation passed from 1922 to 2005. There is no list of amendments.
The Attorney General’s Office - www.irishstatutebook.ie
or www.irlgov.ie/ag (Choose ‘Irish Statute Book’)
Offers Subordinate Legislation from 1922 to 2005. Statutory Instruments
of 2007 have also recently been offered
here, but
there is a gap for 2005-2006 (see
blog post). There is no easy way to find out whether a piece of subordinate
legislation is still in force or has been amended. Some assistance is provided in print form by Richard F.
Humphreys’ Index to Irish Statutory
Instruments (3 volumes, 1988)
Selected Statutory Instruments 1999 to date are available on the Irish Legal Information Initiative (Irlii) website.
A list of subordinate legislation passed from 1997 to date is kept online at UCC Law Library
