S.I. No. 226/2013 - European Communities (Amendment) Act 2012 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2013.


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 2nd July, 2013.

I, EAMON GILMORE, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 (3) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 2012 (No. 21 of 2012), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Amendment) Act 2012 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2013.

2. The 1st day of July 2013 is appointed as the day on which the European Communities (Amendment) Act 2012 (No. 21 of 2012) in so far as it relates to paragraph (iii) of the definition inserted by section 1 of that Act in the European Communities Act 1972 shall come into operation.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

27 June 2013.

EAMON GILMORE,

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order appoints the 1st day of July 2013 as the day on which the European Communities (Amendment) Act 2012 comes into operation insofar as it relates to the Treaty concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, done at Brussels on the 9th day of December 2011.