Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022

Regulations and orders

4. (1) The Minister may by regulations provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed and different regulations may be made in respect of different classes of persons or matters the subject of the prescribing concerned and for different circumstances or classes of circumstances in relation to such different matters or different classes of matters.

(2) Regulations under this Act or an order under section 16 or 80 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 order.

(3) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act 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.

(4) An order under section 16 shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the order shall not be made until a resolution approving the draft has been passed by each such House.