Iris Oifigiúil (Irish State Gazette), which replaced the Dublin Gazette in 1922 is the official gazette as cited in the Adaptation of Enactments Act 1922. It is the medium for publishing governmental, statutory and other notices and announcements and it contains a list of recent statutory instruments. In addition to the biweekly publication of Iris Oifigiúil, a number of supplements are published at various times during the year.
The texts of Primary legislation (acts of parliament) and secondary legislation (statutory instruments) are published as separate titles and not as part of a legal gazette.
First edition
31 January 1922
First online edition
2002
Paper edition
Paper editions may be purchased from:
Government Publications Office,
Mountshannon Road,
Dublin 8, D08 XA06,
Ireland.
Iris Oifigiúil is the official means used by the Government for announcing appointments to public offices and publishing proclamations, notice of the making of statutory instruments, appointment of receivers to companies, etc.
Prima Facie evidence of any proclamation, order, rule, regulation, bye-law, or other official document may be given in any legal proceedings by production of a copy of the Iris purported to contain such matter (Documentary Evidence Act 1925 ss.3-4).
Iris Oifigiúil is the continuation of a publication entitled the Dublin Gazette.
According to the constitution of Ireland 1937 a bill is promulgated as law by the publication by the President of a notice in the Iris Oifigiúil stating that the bill has become law.
An integrated drafting system is used by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government and the Houses of the Oireachtas to support the process of authoring and managing legislation text, including the easy exchange of data between the two offices.
Workflow
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Publishing
Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) is responsible for proofreading, editing and publishing of Bill amendments and enacted Bills.
At present no official collection of consolidated legislation exists but some areas of the law are consolidated from time to time in the form of a legally binding consolidated Act, for example the Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 (31/2010).The Law Reform Commission publish a limited set of administrative consolidations of Acts known as Revised Acts.
Body carrying out
consolidation
Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government– consolidation of specific areas of the law.
Web site: http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/
The Law Reform Commission – Revised Acts (administrative consolidations).
Web site: http://www.lawreform.ie/)
The Law Reform Commission (LRC) is responsible for administrative consolidations of legislation known as Revised Acts (http://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/). The list of published Revised Acts now comprises a significant percentage of the most-used Acts that remain in force in the State.
Status of the
consolidated texts
Areas of the law consolidated into specific Acts are legally binding (paper edition). Revised Acts are not legally binding.
The Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) web site contains Bills and Acts, related documents (explanatory memoranda), Committee and Report stage amendments and Bill debates.
The electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) is an online searchable repository of primary and secondary legislation from 1922 to date (and most of the pre-1922 public and general statutes in force in the State following the enactment of the Statute Law Revision Act 2007) that is freely available to the public through the website https://www.irishstatutebook.ie.
A Legislation Directory for Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders/Statutory Instruments is also published and updated, which enables users of the eISB to identify whether a particular statutory provision has been amended or otherwise affected since it was enacted or made.
The full text of the Constitution with links to amending Acts is also published on the eISB.
The eISB provides direct links from (a) Acts to Revised Acts (unofficial administrative consolidations compiled by the Law Reform Commission) where available and (b) from an Act to the relevant Bill located on the Houses of the Oireachtas (Parliament) web site.
The eISB implements the European Legislation Identifier (ELI) standard for legislation from 2013 to date.
