Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Act 2017

Rules

21. (1) The Minister may by rules provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed but shall not prescribe a fee except—

(a) for the purposes of defraying the cost of the determination of an application or the carrying out of a review, as the case may be, and

(b) with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

(2) Without prejudice to any provision of this Act, rules made under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the rules.

(3) Every rule made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the rule is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the rule is laid before it, the rule shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(4) Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2), the Controller may adopt such procedures for giving effect to this Act as appear to him or her to be appropriate.