Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023

Regulations

18. (1) The Minister may by regulations provide for any matter referred to in this Part or Part 4 as prescribed or to be prescribed for the purposes of the regulations.

(2) Before making a regulation under this Part, the Minister shall consult with persons whom he or she considers to be representative of employers generally and persons whom he or she considers to be representative of employees generally in relation to the regulation.

(3) Without prejudice to any provision of this Act, a regulation under this Part may contain such consequential, supplementary and ancillary provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient.

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