Local Government Act, 1991

Regulations, orders and directions.

3.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for any purpose of this Act.

(2) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Act, a regulation or order under this Act may provide for such incidental, consequential, supplementary or transitional provisions (including provisions for the purpose of securing the continuity of any provision of this Act with any provision of any other Act or instrument repealed, revoked, amended or otherwise affected by this Act or by any regulations or order made there under) as may appear to the Minister to be appropriate for the purposes of this Act or any regulations or order made thereunder.

(3) Regulations or an order under this Act may—

(a) apply to local authorities generally, to a specified class or classes of local authorities, to a particular local authority or to a particular part of the functional area of a local authority,

(b) contain different provisions in relation to different local authorities,

(c) provide for the giving of directions by the Minister (including directions amending or revoking any such directions).

(4) A regulation under this Act (other than a regulation under subsection (1) or (2) of section 52 ) or an order under this Act (other than an order under section 1 (10) or 12 or an order under section 31 relating to the alteration of the boundary of a county or county borough) shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling such regulation or order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation or order is laid before it, the regulation or order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(5) An order under section 1 (10) shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made.

(6) Where it is proposed to make an order under section 12 or 31 in relation to the boundary of a county or county borough, or regulations under subsection (1) or (2) of section 52 , a draft of the order or regulations, as the case may be, shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the order or regulations, as the case may be, shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House.

(7) The Minister may—

(a) by order, amend or revoke any order under this Act (other than an order under section 1 (10) but including an order under this subsection), and

(b) by direction amend or revoke a direction under this Act (including a direction under this subsection).

(8) A person to whom a direction is given under this Act shall comply therewith.

(9) This section does not apply to an order under subsection (1) of section 9 and this section (other than subsection (4)) does not apply to an order under subsection (2) of that section.