International Protection Act 2026

Regulations (Part 3) (Chapter 2)

53. The Minister, having consulted with the competent authority, shall, for the purpose of promoting high professional standards and good practice on the part of representative organisations, provisional representative persons and representative persons, make regulations to—

(a) specify the standards to be applied to representative organisations, provisional representative persons and representative persons in the performance by them of their functions under this Act and the EU acts,

(b) make provision for the training of provisional representative persons and representative persons and the staff of representative organisations, including initial and continuous training concerning the rights and needs of unaccompanied minors and any applicable child safeguarding standards,

(c) make provision for the monitoring, measuring and evaluation of the performance by representative organisations, provisional representative persons and representative persons of their functions under this Act and the EU acts,

(d) make provision for the establishment and administration of a system of investigation and adjudication of complaints against representative organisations, provisional representative persons and representative persons,

(e) make provision for the procedures that are to apply in respect of the termination of the designation or appointment of a representative organisation, a provisional representative person or a representative person because the representative organisation, the provisional representative person or representative person, as the case may be, has not adequately performed his, her, or its functions under this Act or the EU acts,

(f) specify such fees and expenses to be paid to representative organisations, provisional representative persons and representative persons as the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, from time to time determine, and

(g) make provision for such other matters as the Minister considers necessary to ensure that representative organisations, provisional representative persons and representative persons are capable of performing their functions under this Act and the EU acts.