Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) (Confirmation of Orders) Act 2008

Confirmation of certain orders under section 3 of Act of 1971.

3.— (1) Subject to subsection (5), every order under section 3 of the Act of 1971 made before the passing of this Act shall have statutory effect as if it were an Act of the Oireachtas.

(2) Every act done, or purporting to have been done, by a body established under section 3 of the Act of 1971 under and in accordance with an order made under that section shall be, and be deemed always to have been, valid and effectual for all purposes.

(3) If subsection (1) or (2) would, but for this subsection, conflict with a constitutional right of any person, the operation of that subsection shall be subject to such limitation as is necessary to secure that it does not so conflict but shall otherwise be of full force and effect.

(4) The Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 shall, in so far as it applied to an officer, servant, employee or member of the staff of a body established under section 3 of the Act of 1971 immediately before the passing of this Act, continue to so apply after the passing of this Act.

(5) This section shall not apply to an order that, immediately before the passing of this Act, stood revoked under section 5 of the Act of 1971.