Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020
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Number 2 of 2020 | ||
EMERGENCY MEASURES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST (COVID-19) ACT 2020 | ||
CONTENTS | ||
Preliminary and General | ||
Section | ||
Operation of Residential Tenancies Act 2004 | ||
8. Entitlement to remain in occupation of dwelling during emergency period | ||
Calculation of Time Limits Relating to Planning and Development | ||
Amendments to Certain Acts Regulating Health and Social Care Professions | ||
13. Amendment of Medical Practitioners Act 2007 - insertion of sections 110 and 111 | ||
PART 5 | ||
Amendments to Mental Health Act 2001 | ||
Amendment to Defence Act 1954: Re-enlistment of Formerly Enlisted Persons | ||
26. Amendment of Defence Act 1954: re-enlistment of formerly enlisted persons | ||
Covid-19: Temporary Wage Subsidy Provisions | ||
Amendment to Redundancy Payments Act 1967 | ||
Amendments to Civil Registration Act 2004 | ||
32. Alleviation of requirement on certain persons to appear in person under Part 3 of Act of 2004 | ||
33. Alleviation of requirement on certain persons to appear in person under Part 5 of Act of 2004 | ||
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Acts Referred to | ||
Building Control Act 1990 (No. 3) | ||
Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3) | ||
Corporation Tax Acts | ||
Defence Act 1954 (No. 18) | ||
Dentists Act 1985 (No. 9) | ||
Derelict Sites Act 1990 (No. 14) | ||
Income Tax Acts | ||
Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25) | ||
Mental Health Act 2001 (No. 25) | ||
Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 (No. 41) | ||
Payment of Wages Act 1991 (No. 25) | ||
Pharmacy Act 2007 (No. 20) | ||
Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (No. 17) | ||
Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30) | ||
Redundancy Payments Act 1967 (No. 21) | ||
Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27) | ||
Social Welfare Acts | ||
Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39) | ||
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Number 2 of 2020 | ||
EMERGENCY MEASURES IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST (COVID-19) ACT 2020 | ||
An Act, to make exceptional provision, in the public interest and having regard to the manifest and grave risk to human life and public health posed by the spread of the disease known as Covid-19 and in order to mitigate, where practicable, the effect of the spread of that disease and to mitigate the adverse economic consequences resulting, or likely to result from the spread of that disease and to mitigate its impact on the administration of vital public service functions; to make provision in relation to the operation of certain provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 during the period of 3 months following the enactment of this Act and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government; to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide, in certain circumstances, for the disregard of a certain period in the calculation of time limits referred to in that Act and in certain other enactments; to provide for the registration of certain health and social care professionals to fulfil the need for medical resources to alleviate the risk from Covid-19 to human life and public health and for those and related purposes to amend the Dentists Act 1985 , the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 , the Pharmacy Act 2007 , the Medical Practitioners Act 2007 , and the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011 ; to make provision, due to the exigencies of the public health emergency posed by the spread of Covid-19, for certain amendments and modifications to the provisions of the Mental Health Act 2001 relating to the carrying out of reviews under section 18 of that Act; to amend the Defence Act 1954 to enable the re-enlistment of formerly enlisted persons; to enable the provision of a temporary wage subsidy to certain employees; to make provision in relation to the operation of certain provisions of the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 for a certain period following the enactment of this Act and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government and, for that purpose, to amend the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 ; to make provision allowing for the modified operation of certain aspects of the civil registration system, if required, for a limited period and such further period (if any) as may be specified by order of the Government, including by way of allowing certain persons to provide particulars to a registrar in writing rather than by appearing in person, and by allowing the staff of an tArd-Chláraitheoir to perform the functions of certain registrars in circumstances where the civil registration system is not available or able to perform its statutory functions as it ordinarily would be, and for those purposes, to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 ; and to provide for related matters. | ||
[27th March, 2020] | ||
WHEREAS an emergency has arisen in the State by virtue of the spread of the disease known as Covid-19; | ||
AND WHEREAS the State is and its citizens are, in significant respects, highly exposed to the effect of the spread of that disease; and having regard to the constitutional duty of the State to respect and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate the rights of citizens to life and to bodily integrity, it is necessary to introduce a range of extraordinary measures and safeguards to prevent, minimise, limit or reduce the risk of persons being infected with that disease; | ||
AND WHEREAS the emergency that has arisen is of such a character that it is necessary for compelling reasons of public interest and for the common good that extraordinary measures should be taken to mitigate, to the extent practicable, the adverse economic consequences resulting, or likely to result, from the spread of that disease and to mitigate its impact on the administration of vital public service functions; | ||
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: |
