Building Societies Act, 1976

Regulations.

5.—(1) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), the Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(b) For the purposes of Part IV, the Minister for Finance may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing referred to in that Part as prescribed or to be prescribed.

(2) Regulations under this Act may apply either generally or by reference to a specified class or classes of societies, loans, rules or such other matters as the Minister making the regulations may consider appropriate.

(3) Without prejudice to any other power conferred by this Act, regulations thereunder may contain such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provisions as may appear to the Minister making the regulations 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 (other than a regulation under section 76) 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 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.