Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022

Regulations (Part 2)

21. (1) The Minister may, following consultation with the Minister for Social Protection, by regulations provide for any matter referred to in this Part as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(2) The Minister may, following consultation with the Minister for Social Protection, by regulations provide for the following matters:

(a) the procedure for the making of an application under section 7 , including the following:

(i) the period within which an application shall be made;

(ii) the form of such an application;

(b) the procedure for an appeal by an applicant against a decision of an appointed officer, including the following:

(i) the form and manner in which an appeal shall be made;

(ii) the information to be provided by the applicant for the purposes of the appeal, including the reasons for that appeal;

(iii) the conduct of the appeal;

(iv) the provision of such access to information, records and documentation held by the Minister or the Minister for Social Protection as may reasonably be required for the purposes of an appeal;

(v) the form and manner in which, and the period within which, the applicant shall be notified of the determination of the appeal.

(3) Regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations or for giving effect to this Part.

(4) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Part 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 is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.