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| 2000 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 3 | Finance Act 2000 | An act to charge and impose certain duties of customs and inland revenue (including excise), to amend the law relating to customs and inland revenue (including excise) and to make further provisions in connection with finance. |
| 32 | ICC Bank Act 2000 | An act to make provision in relation to ICC bank public limited company, including increasing the authorised share capital of the bank, the disposal by the minister for finance of shares in the bank and provision in relation to certain guarantees of the bank’s borrowing, to provide for the repeal of the ICC bank acts, 1933 to 1997, and the provisions of certain other enactments and the revocation of certain statutory instruments and to provide for related matters. |
| 33 | National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000 | An act to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the national pensions reserve fund and a body to be known as the national pensions reserve fund commission to control and manage the fund, to dissolve the temporary holding fund for superannuation liabilities, to amend the taxes consolidation act, 1997, and to provide for connected matters. |
| 39 | National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000 | An act to provide for the delegation to, and the conferral on, the national treasury management agency of functions in relation to the management of certain claims against the state and certain other related functions, functions in relation to fund investment services, consultancy services and other services, the conferral on the minister for finance of functions in relation to central treasury services and the delegation of those functions to the national treasury management agency, and for those purposes to amend the national treasury management agency act, 1990, and the vocational education act, 1930, and to provide for related matters. |
| 2001 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 6 | Trustee Savings Banks (Amendment) Act 2001 | An act to amend and extend sections 57 and 64 of the trustee savings banks act, 1989, and schedule 12 to the taxes consolidation act, 1997. |
| 7 | Finance Act 2001 | An act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 12 | ACC Bank Act 2001 | An act to make provision in relation to ACC bank public limited company including, increasing the authorised share capital of the bank, the issue of shares in the bank in connection with an employee share ownership trust for the benefit of its employees, the disposal by the minister for finance of shares in the bank and provision in relation to certain guarantees of the bank’s borrowing, to provide for the repeal to the extent provided for of the ACC bank acts, 1978 to 1999, and the provisions of certain other enactments and the revocation of certain statutory instruments and to provide for related matters. |
| 13 | Valuation Act 2001 | An act to revise the law relating to the valuation of properties for the purposes of the making of rates in relation to them; to make new provision in relation to the categories of properties in respect of which rates may not be made and to provide for related matters. |
| 16 | Euro Changeover (Amounts) Act 2001 | An Act to make provision for the substitution, with effect from 1 January 2002, of convenient amounts expressed in euro and cent for amounts expressed in Irish pounds and pence in certain legislative provisions, to amend the economic and monetary union act, 1998, to amend the credit union act, 1997, to amend the bankruptcy act, 1988, to amend the central bank act, 1989, and to make provision for matters related thereto. |
| 30 | Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act 2001 | An Act to amend and extend the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act, 1938. |
| 31 | Standards in Public Office Act 2001 | An Act to provide for the establishment of a Commission, to be known as the Standards in Public Office Commission, to confer on it the functions of the Public Offices Commission and certain other functions, to provide for the furnishing of tax clearance certificates to that Commission by persons upon election to either House of the Oireachtas or appointment to judicial office or senior office, to amend the statutory declarations act, 1938, the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995, and the Electoral Act, 1997, and to provide for connected matters. |
| 32 | Dormant Accounts Act 2001 | An Act to provide for the transfer of moneys from dormant accounts and the Intestate Estates Fund Deposit Account to a fund to be known as the Dormant Accounts Fund, to confer functions on the National Treasury Management Agency in relation to the control and management of the fund, to provide for the disbursement of moneys (including the repayment of moneys to persons entitled to them) from the fund, to establish a body to be known as the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board and to define its functions, to provide for the appointment of inspectors, to amend the State Property Act, 1954, and to provide for related matters. |
| 33 | Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001 | An Act to amend the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Acts, 1938 to 1998, the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938, and certain other acts to make further provision for the remuneration, allowances and superannuation payable to and in respect of certain holders and former holders of Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices; to provide for the transfer of previous pensionable service of persons who hold such offices; and to provide for related matters. |
| 47 | Asset Covered Securities Act 2001 | An Act to facilitate the establishment and operation of a market in asset covered securities, to provide for the registration of designated credit institutions, to amend the Building Societies Act, 1989, and certain other enactments, and to provide for related matters. |
| 2002 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 1 | State Authorities (Public Private Partnership Arrangements) Act, 2002 | An Act to make further provision in relation to the functions and powers of certain state authorities, in particular to enable them to enter into public private partnership arrangements, and to provide for related matters. |
| 5 | Finance Act, 2002 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 29 | National Development Finance Agency Act, 2002 | An Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as an Ghníomhaireacht Airgeadais d’Fhorbairt Náisiúnta, or in the English language, the National Development Finance Agency and to define its functions and to provide for connected matters. |
| 2003 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 1 | Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 | An Act to consolidate enactments relating to capital acquisitions tax. |
| 3 | Finance Act 2003 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 12 | Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2003 | An Act to amend the Central Bank Act 1942 for the purpose of reorganising and renaming the Central Bank of Ireland; to provide for the establishment and functions of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority as a constituent part of that bank; to amend certain other acts consequential on the reorganisation; and to provide for related matters. |
| 28 | Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 | An Act to establish a body to be known as Coimisiún Thithe an Oireachtais or, in the English language, the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, to provide for the funding, functions and composition of the Commission, to provide for the position to be known as Secretary General of the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas, and to provide for connected matters. |
| 2004 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 7 | Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 | An Act to remove the compulsory retirement age for certain categories of new entrants into the Public Service on or after 1 April 2004, to increase the pensionable age for certain categories of new entrants into the Public Service from that date, including members of either House of the Oireachtas and certain office holders, and to make consequential provisions, to provide for certain other categories of new entrants, for transitional matters and for the making of a scheme or schemes for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of new entrants into the permanent defence force appointed on or after 1 April 2004, and to provide for connected matters. |
| 8 | Finance Act 2004 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 16 | Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Act 2004 | An Act to amend the Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (compellability, privileges and immunities of witnesses) Act 1997 and to provide for related matters. |
| 21 | Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2004 | An Act to amend the Central Bank Act 1942 for the purposes of establishing the Financial Services Ombudsman’s Bureau and prescribing the functions and powers of that Ombudsman, providing for the establishment of consultative panels to advise the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority on certain matters; to amend the Central Bank Act 1997 for the purposes of making further provision for auditing the accounts of financial service providers and providing for the regulation of money transmission businesses; and to make miscellaneous amendments to certain other Acts and Statutory Instruments relating to the provision of financial services. |
| 26 | International Development Association (Amendment) Act 2004 | An Act to enable additional payments not exceeding in aggregate a specified total amount to be made on behalf of the Government to the International Development Association. |
| 33 | Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 | An Act to reform the recruitment and appointment processes of the Civil Service and certain other bodies in the Public Service and for that purpose, to provide for new management structures to replace the Civil Service Commissioners and local appointments commissioners, to establish the commission for Public Service appointments to oversee the implementation and development of those structures in the context of the public interest and the need to uphold the probity of the recruitment and appointment process, to provide for an office connected to that Commission, to provide for the establishment of the Public Appointments Service as the recruitment and selection body for the Civil Service and other bodies in the Public Service, to introduce flexibility into the recruitment process by enabling the licensing by that commission, in addition to the licensing of the public appointments service, of any part of those services to undertake their own recruitment in respect of one or more classes of employees and, generally, to enable licence holders to delegate some of their recruitment processes to persons or bodies specified by that commission from time to time, to enable those services to respond to changes in their recruitment needs and in the labour market, to provide for both permanent and temporary appointments and to provide for promotion processes, and for those purposes take account of the need to maintain, in the public interest, the integrity and probity of both the recruitment and selection processes for those services and to provide for connected matters. |
| 37 | Council of Europe Development Bank Act 2004 | An Act to provide for the approval of the terms of the agreement for the Council of Europe Development Bank and to provide for matters (including payments) related to that agreement. |
| 2005 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 5 | Finance Act 2005 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 18 | Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Act 2005 | An Act to provide for the amendment of the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956, to provide for the application of the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 to certain civil servants, to provide for the application of the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973 to civil servants, to provide for the amendment of the Comptroller and Auditor-General Act 1923, to provide for the amendment of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, to provide for the amendment of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974, to provide for the amendment of the Ombudsman Act 1980, to provide for the amendment of the Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act 1919, to provide for the amendment of the Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004, to provide for the amendment of the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004, to provide for the amendment of the Staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas Act 1959, to provide for the amendment of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003, to provide for the alteration of the title of the secretary to the president and to provide for matters connected with the matters aforesaid. |
| 34 | Development Banks Act 2005 | An Act to provide for approval of the terms of the agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank, to provide for matters (including payments) related to that agreement, to amend the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Act 1991, the Bretton Woods Agreements Act 1957, the International Development Association Act 1960, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Act 1988 and the Council of Europe Development Bank Act 2004. |
| 2006 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 6 | Finance Act 2006 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 39 | Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Act 2006 | An Act to amend and extend the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 and to provide for related matters. |
| 2007 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 11 | Finance Act 2007 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 13 | Asset Covered Securities (Amendment) Act 2007 | An Act to amend the Asset Covered Securities Act 2001. |
| 16 | National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Act 2007 | An Act to amend the National Development Finance Agency Act 2002 by providing for additional functions of the National Development Finance Agency and to provide for connected matters. |
| 31 | Finance (No. 2) Act 2007 | An Act to provide for the amendment of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999. |
| 33 | Ministers and Secretaries (Ministers of State) Act 2007 | An Act to provide for the increase in the number of Ministers of State who may be appointed by the Government under Section 1(1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1977. |
| 37 | Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 | An Act to make provision in relation to markets in financial instruments and to make miscellaneous amendments to financial services legislation and to the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938, the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000, the Ordnance Survey Ireland Act 2001, and to the Freedom of Information Act 1997. |
| 2008 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 3 | Finance Act 2008 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 18 | Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 | An Act to provide, in the public interest, for maintaining the stability of the financial system in the state and for that purpose to provide for financial support by the Minister for Finance in respect of certain credit institutions, to amend the Competition Act 2002 and other enactments, and to provide for connected matters. |
| 25 | Finance (No. 2) Act 2008 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 2009 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 1 | Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Act 2009 | An Act to provide, in the public interest, for maintaining the stability of the financial system in the state, and for that purpose -
(a) to provide for the transfer to the Minister for Finance or the Minister’s nominee of all the shares in Anglo Irish Bank corporation public limited company, (b) to extinguish certain rights in Anglo Irish Bank, (c) to disapply certain provisions of the Companies Acts and other enactments in so far as they relate to Anglo Irish Bank, (d) to provide for the removal of persons from certain offices, positions or employment with Anglo Irish Bank and the appointment of persons to those offices or positions or that employment, (e) to provide for the appointment of an assessor to assess whether compensation should be paid to persons whose shares were transferred to the Minister for Finance or whose rights were extinguished, and if so to determine the fair and reasonable amount payable as such compensation, (f) to provide for the payment of any such compensation, (g) to make consequential amendments to certain other enactments, and (h) to provide for connected matters. |
| 5 | Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 | An Act, in the public interest, to provide for the payment of a contribution by certain persons in the public service (including members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and certain office holders) who are members of an occupational pension scheme or pension arrangement (by whatever name called) which is provided for under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1963 or any other enactment or administrative measure to like effect or is required to be made, approved of or consented to (however expressed) by one or more than one Minister of the Government, to provide for the reduction of the amount payable, or rate of payment, out of money provided by the Oireachtas or the central fund or the growing produce of that fund to certain persons for certain services to or on behalf of the state, to provide for the amendment of section 4 of the Local Government Act 1998, the Income Tax Acts and part 4a of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, to provide for the deferral of liabilities, accruals or payments due under a scheme known as the farm waste management scheme and to provide for related matters. |
| 7 | Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009 | An Act to amend the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000 in relation to certain investments in the public interest; to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in relation to the taxation of such investments; to amend the Securitisation (Proceeds of Certain Mortgages) Act 1995 to facilitate the winding-up of a body established under that Act; to amend the Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 to provide for greater transparency in relation to certain kinds of trading in financial instruments; and to provide for connected matters. |
| 12 | Finance Act 2009 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 13 | Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Act 2009 | An Act to provide for the making of regulations regarding the amount payable to a person maintaining eligible deposits with a credit institution; to provide for the maintenance of the deposit protection account by the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland; to provide for the maintenance by credit institutions of deposits in the deposit protection account; to provide for the amount of the deposit and its variation; to give further effect to Directive 94/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the council of 30 may 1994 on deposit guarantee schemes; to amend the Central Bank Act 1942 and to provide for related matters. |
| 14 | Financial Measures (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 | An Act to provide for the continuation of certain direct debit mandates after the coming into operation of the single European payments area direct debit scheme, to provide for the transfer of the assets of certain pension funds to the National Pensions Reserve Fund, and the continued payment of benefits formerly payable from those funds, to make provision in relation to the giving of certain guarantees by the Minister for Finance, to amend the Central Bank Act 1989 so as to clarify its application to certain acquiring transactions, to amend the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 so as to allow the extension of the period in which financial support under that Act can be provided, to amend the Insurance (No. 2) Act 1983 and the Insurance Act 1989 in relation to life insurance and reinsurance, to amend the Netting of Financial Contracts Act 1995 so as to clarify whether certain persons are parties to a netting agreement, to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in relation to the taxation position of the National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission in relation to certain assets transferred from pension funds to the National Pensions Reserve Fund, and to provide for related purposes. |
| 29 | Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 2009 | An Act to amend the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act 1938 and the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Acts 1938 to 2001, to make further provision for salaries and allowances payable to members of either House of the Oireachtas and for the remuneration, allowances and pensions payable to former holders of Ministerial and other offices who are members of either such House or Members of the European Parliament, and to provide for related matters. |
| 34 | National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 | An Act—To address a serious threat to the economy and to the systemic stability of credit institutions in the State generally by providing, in particular, for the establishment of a body to be known as the National Asset Management Agency for the purposes of—
(a) the acquisition by that Agency of certain assets from certain persons to be designated by the Minister for Finance, (b) effecting the expeditious and efficient transfer of those assets to that Agency, (c) the holding, managing and realising of those assets by that Agency (including the collection of interest and capital due, the taking or taking over of collateral where necessary and the provision of funds where appropriate), (d) the taking by that Agency of all steps necessary or expedient to protect, enhance and better realise the value of assets transferred to it, (e) the performance by that Agency of such other functions, related to the management or realisation of those assets, as provided in this Act or as directed by the Minister, and (f) the facilitation of restructuring of credit institutions of systemic importance to the economy, and To provide for the valuation of the assets concerned and the review of any such valuation, To give the National Asset Management Agency certain powers and other functions in respect of land or an interest in land acquired by that Agency, including powers relating to the development of land, To provide for the issuing of debt securities by the Minister for Finance and by that Agency in the performance of its functions under this Act, To provide for certain legal proceedings relating to assets acquired by that Agency, to amend the Central Bank Act 1942, and to provide for related matters. |
| 41 | Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 | An Act, in the public interest, to provide for the reduction of the remuneration of certain persons in the Public Service (including Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and certain office holders), and to provide for related matters. |
| 44 | Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Act 2009 | An Act to amend and extend the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003 and to amend accordingly the references to the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas in certain enactments. |
| 2010 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 5 | Finance Act 2010 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 7 | Euro Area Loan Facility Act 2010 | An Act to facilitate in the public interest the safeguarding of the financial stability of the Euro Area as a whole and for that purpose to enable payments to be made out of the central fund or the growing produce of that fund so as to enable effect to be given in the state to the Intercreditor Agreement regarding the pooled bilateral loans for the benefit of the Hellenic Republic made by and between certain Member States of the European Union, including the State, and for that purpose and in accordance with article 2 of that agreement to enable effect to be given, in so far as it relates to the State, to the loan facility agreement referred to in that article, to provide for all receipts received in respect of moneys advanced under this Act to be paid into the exchequer and to provide for related matters. |
| 16 | European Financial Stability Facility Act 2010 | An Act to facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the European Union and for that purpose—
(a) to provide for matters relating to the participation by the State in the European Financial Stability Facility, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of the grand duchy of Luxembourg pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement among certain member States of the European Union consequent on the conclusions of 9 May 2010 of the council of economic and Finance Ministers of the European Union regarding the preservation of financial stability in Europe and subject to the terms of the EFSF Framework Agreement entered into by certain member States on the one part and the European Financial Stability Facility on the other part, (b) to provide for matters relating to guarantees given by the State for the purposes of the agreement so entered into, (c) to provide for payments to be made out of the central fund or the growing produce of that fund so as to enable effect to be given to the agreement so entered into, (d) to provide for all receipts received under this Act, including receipts in respect of moneys advanced or guarantees given, to be paid into the exchequer, (e) to amend the Euro Area Loan Facility Act 2010, and (f) to provide for related matters. |
| 23 | Central Bank Reform Act 2010 | An Act to establish the Central Bank of Ireland as a single fully-integrated structure with a unitary board — the Central Bank Commission — replacing the boards of the Central Bank and Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority; to enhance the system of regulatory control and to confer additional powers on the Central Bank, the Governor and the Head of Financial Regulation to prevent potential serious damage to the financial system in the State, support the stability of that system and to protect users of financial services; to transfer certain functions of the Central Bank to the National Consumer Agency; to amend the enactments relating to the Central Bank and certain other Acts consequential on that reorganisation; to amend the law relating to the regulation of lending by credit unions; to extend the range of persons who can be authorised to investigate the affairs of an insurer; and to provide for related matters. |
| 31 | Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 | An Act to consolidate enactments relating to value-added tax. |
| 36 | Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010 | An Act to make provision, in the context of the National Recovery Plan 2011 - 2014 and the European Union/International Monetary Fund Programme of financial support for Ireland, in relation to the stabilisation, and the preservation or restoration of the financial position of certain credit institutions; to amend the Building Societies Act 1989, the Central Bank Act 1971 and the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 for those purposes; to amend the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000 to allow the Minister for Finance to give certain directions in relation to the National Pensions Reserve Fund; to make consequential amendments to the European Communities (Reorganisation and Winding-up of Credit Institutions) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 198 of 2004); and for related purposes. |
| 38 | Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010 | An Act, in the public interest, to provide for the reduction of the amount of the payment of pension or other benefits (other than lump sums) payable to or in respect of certain persons who are or were in the public service (including former holders of certain offices, Members and former Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and former members of the judiciary) under an occupational pension scheme or pension arrangement (by whatever name called) which is provided for under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1963 or any other enactment or administrative measure to like effect, or is required to be made, approved of or consented to (however expressed) by one or more than one Minister of the Government; to amend the financial emergency measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 and the National Minimum Wage Act 2000; and to provide for related matters. |
| 2011 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 6 | Finance Act 2011 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 8 | Finance (No. 2) Act 2011 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance. |
| 10 | Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 | An Act to provide for the establishment of a department of state to be known, in the Irish language, as an Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe or, in the English language, as the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; to provide for the transfer of certain functions of the Minister for Finance to the Minister of the Government having charge of that department; to confer functions on the said Minister of the Government in relation to the modernisation and development of the public service; to deem members of staff of the National Treasury Management Agency assigned to perform functions in the Department of Finance to be officers of the Minister for Finance for certain purposes; to provide that the revenue commissioners shall be independent in the performance of certain of their functions; for those and other purposes to amend certain enactments; and to provide for matters connected therewith. |
| 18 | Finance (No. 3) Act 2011 | An Act to amend and extend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999, the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 and the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 in relation to the Taxation of Civil Partners and Cohabitants as a Consequence of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 and to provide for connected matters. |
| 25 | European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Act 2011 | An Act to further facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the European Union and the safeguarding of the financial stability of the Euro Area as a whole and for those purposes—
(a) having regard to the participation by the State in the European Financial Stability Facility, to enable effect to be given to the amendment to the EFSF Framework Agreement entered into by certain member States of the European Union on the one part and the European Financial Stability Facility on the other part, (b) to enable effect to be given, in so far as it relates to the State, to the amendment to the Eur 80 000 000 000 Loan Facility Agreement done in Brussels on 14 June 2011 and in Athens on 10 June 2011, (c) to amend the Euro Area Loan Facility Act 2010 and the European Financial Stability Facility Act 2010, and (d) to provide for related matters. |
| 27 | Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) Act 2011 | An Act to make provision for an effective and expeditious resolution regime for certain credit institutions at the least cost to the State; to amend certain enactments; and for related matters. |
| 2012 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 6 | Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Act 2012 | An Act to further facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the European Union and the safeguarding of the financial stability of the Euro Area as a whole and for those purposes—
(a) to enable effect to be given, in so far as it relates to the State, to the amendment to the Eur 80 000 000 000 Loan Facility Agreement done in Brussels on 27 February 2012 and in Athens on 24 February 2012, (b) to amend the Euro Area Loan Facility Act 2010 and the European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Act 2011, and (c) to provide for related matters. |
| 9 | Finance Act 2012 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 20 | European Stability Mechanism Act 2012 | An Act to further facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the European Union by establishing a permanent stability mechanism to assume the tasks of the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism in providing, where needed, financial assistance to euro area member states and for that purpose—
(a) to make permanent provision to provide for matters relating to the participation by the State in the European Stability Mechanism pursuant to the treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism done Brussels on 2 February 2012 between the Euro Area Member States, (b) to provide for matters relating to the State’s subscription to the authorised capital stock of the European Stability Mechanism in accordance with that treaty, (c) to provide for payments to be made out of the central fund or the growing produce of that fund so as to enable the state to give effect to that treaty, (d) to provide for all dividends or other moneys received by the State under that treaty to be paid into the exchequer, and (e) to provide for related matters. |
| 39 | Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012 | An Act to make provision for securing that the rules in Article 3 of the Treaty on Stability, coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union take effect in the law of the State in accordance with paragraph 2 of that Article and that the rule in Article 4 of that Treaty takes effect in the State; to make provision in accordance with Article 3 of that Treaty in relation to a medium-term budgetary objective and a correction mechanism; to establish a body to be known as Comhairle Chomhairleach Bhuiséadach na hÉireann or, in the english language, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and provide for its functions; and to provide for related matters. |
| 40 | Credit Union and Co-operation with Overseas Regulators Act 2012 | An Act to amend certain provisions of the Credit Union Acts 1997 and 2001, in particular, to amend the prudential requirements for credit unions, to change the governance requirements for credit unions by removing certain management functions from boards of directors of credit unions and providing for a separate management structure and to improve the oversight and general policy functions of such boards of directors; to provide for the restructuring of credit unions and for stabilisation support to credit unions, to provide for a fund to be known as the Credit Union Fund for the purposes of such restructuring and stabilisation and to provide for levies in respect of that fund; to provide for miscellaneous matters relating to credit unions; to amend the central bank acts 1942 to 2011, to provide for co-operation between the Central Bank of Ireland and overseas regulators and to provide for the appointment of authorised officers by the Central Bank of Ireland; and to provide for matters related to the foregoing. |
| 52 | Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 | An Act to provide for the imposition of an annual tax to be called “Local Property Tax” in respect of certain residential properties and for the establishment and maintenance of a register of residential properties in the State by the revenue commissioners and to provide for related matters. |
| 2013 | ||
| No | Title | Purpose |
| 1 | Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Act 2013 | An Act to further facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the European Union and the safeguarding of the financial stability of the Euro Area as a whole and for those purposes—
(a) to enable effect to be given, in so far as it relates to the state, to the amendment to the Eur 80 000 000 000 Loan Facility Agreement done in Brussels on 19 December 2012 and in Athens on 18 December 2012, (b) to provide for matters relating to subsequent amendments to the loan facility agreement which have been approved by Dáil Éireann pursuant to Article 29.5.2° of the Constitution, (c) to amend the Euro Area Loan Facility Act 2010, and (d) to provide for related matters. |
| 2 | Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013 | An Act to provide for the winding up of IBRC and to provide for connected matters. |
| 4 | Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Act 2013 | An Act to amend the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 and to provide for related matters. |
| 8 | Finance Act 2013 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 26 | Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 | An Act to further provide for the regulation and supervision of financial service providers and financial services; to further provide for the enforcement of financial services legislation; to provide for the protection of persons reporting breaches; for those and other purposes to provide for amendments to, and to further amend and extend, the Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2012 and certain other acts and statutory instruments, and to provide for related matters. |
| 41 | Finance (No. 2) Act 2013 | An Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further provision in connection with finance including the regulation of customs. |
| 45 | Credit Reporting Act 2013 | An Act to make provision for the establishment, maintenance and operation of a central credit register for the holding of information about credit applications and credit agreements and parties to them; to make provision about the information to be provided for entry on the register; to make provision for access to the information held on the register for the assessment of creditworthiness and other purposes; to impose duties on parties to credit agreements; to amend the Central Bank Act 1942; and the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013; and to make provision for related matters |
Appendix 8: Powers of the Central Bank and Financial Regulator: 1992 to 2013
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