Jurisdiction of Courts and Enforcement of Judgments (European Communities) Act, 1988

Conventions to have force of law.

3.—(1) The Conventions shall have the force of law in the State and judicial notice shall be taken of them.

(2) For convenience of reference there are set out in the First , Second , Third and Fourth Schedules , respectively, to this Act:

(a) the 1968 Convention, as amended by Titles II and III of the 1978 Accession Convention and Titles II and III of the 1982 Accession Convention,

(b) the 1971 Protocol, as amended by Title IV of the 1978 Accession Convention and Title IV of the 1982 Accession Convention,

(c) Titles V and VI of the 1978 Accession Convention,

(d) Titles V and VI of the 1982 Accession Convention,

being texts prepared from the authentic texts in the English language referred to in Articles 37 and 41 of the 1978 Accession Convention and Article 17 of the 1982 Accession Convention.