Building Societies Act, 1989

Regulations, directions, etc.

3.—(1) Regulations may be made by the appropriate authority, being the Minister, the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Justice or the Central Bank—

(a) for the general purposes or for any particular purpose of this Act, or

(b) prescribing any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed, or in relation to any matter referred to as the subject of regulations.

(2) Regulations under this Act may apply either generally or by reference to a specified class or classes of societies, loans, assets, liabilities or powers of societies, or to a specified time or times, or during a specified period or periods or by reference to any other matter as the appropriate authority may consider appropriate.

(3) Without prejudice to any specific provision of this Act, any regulations thereunder may contain such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provisions (including provisions for the purpose of effecting the transition from the repealed enactments to this Act) as may appear to the appropriate authority to be necessary or proper for any purpose of this Act or in consequence of, or to give full effect to, any provision of this Act.

(4) Every regulation made 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 House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(5) The Central Bank may specify matters or give a direction in relation to any provision of this Act or of regulations made thereunder which provides for the specifying of such matters or the giving of such directions by it to a society and the following provisions shall apply—

(a) such specification or direction shall be given by an officer of the Central Bank duly authorised for that purpose,

(b) the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) shall, subject to any necessary modifications, apply to such specifications or directions as they apply to regulations but a specification or direction may also apply to an individual society.