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26 1936

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Number 26 of 1936.


SEANAD EIREANN (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS), ACT, 1936.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Cesser of statutory references to Seanad Eireann.

2.

Adaptation of statutory references to the Houses of the Oireachtas.

3.

Amendment of the Private Bill Costs Act, 1924.

4.

Power of the Executive Council to make statutory adaptations and modifications.

5.

Extent and application of general adaptations and modifications.

6.

Repeals.

7.

Short title.

FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE


Act Referred to

Private Bill Costs Act, 1924

No. 52 of 1924

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Number 26 of 1936.


SEANAD EIREANN (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS), ACT, 1936.


AN ACT TO MAKE OR PROVIDE FOR THE MAKING OF SUCH AMENDMENTS OF THE LAW AND SUCH ADAPTATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS OF ACTS OF THE OIREACHTAS AND INSTRUMENTS MADE THEREUNDER AS MAY BE NECESSARY IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE ABOLITION OF SEANAD EIREANN AS A CONSTITUENT HOUSE OF THE LEGISLATURE CREATED BY ARTICLE 12 OF THE CONSTITUTION [3rd July, 1936.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

Cesser of statutory references to Seanad Eireann.

1. —Subject and without prejudice to the specific repeals of Acts or parts of Acts of the Oireachtas made by this Act, every mention or reference contained in any Act of the Oireachtas of or to Seanad Eireann, or the Seanad, or of or to the Cathaoirleach or the Leas-Cathaoirleach of Seanad Eireann, or of or to a member or members of Seanad Eireann or of the Seanad shall cease to have effect.

Adaptation of statutory references to the Houses of the Oireachtas.

2. —(1) Subject and without prejudice to the specific amendments in and repeals of Acts or parts of Acts of the Oireachtas made by this Act or by any order made under this Act, every mention or reference contained in any Act of the Oireachtas of or to both Houses of the Oireachtas, or either House of the Oireachtas shall be construed and take effect as a mention of or reference to Dáil Eireann.

(2) Whenever any Act of the Oireachtas requires anything to be done by both Houses of the Oireachtas or either House of the Oireachtas, such thing may (subject and without prejudice to the specific amendments in and repeals of Acts or parts of Acts of the Oireachtas made by this Act) be done by Dáil Eireann and shall, if and when so done, have the same force and effect for the purposes of such Act as if done (as the case may require) by both Houses of the Oireachtas, or by either House of the Oireachtas.

Amendment of the Private Bill Costs Act, 1924 .

3. —The Private Bill Costs Act, 1924 (No. 52 of 1924), shall be construed and have effect as if the sections and sub-sections thereof mentioned in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act were respectively amended in the manner set out in the second column of that Schedule opposite the mention of each such section and sub-section respectively in the said first column.

Power of the Executive Council to make statutory adaptations and modifications.

4. —(1) Whenever the Executive Council are of opinion that, in consequence of the abolition of Seanad Eireann as a constituent House of the Legislature created by Article 12 of the Constitution, any general or specific adaptation of or modification in any Act (whether public or private) of the Oireachtas is necessary to enable such Act to have full force and effect, the Executive Council may, from time to time, by order make all such general or specific adaptations of or modifications in any such Act as are in the opinion aforesaid necessary to enable such Act to have full force and effect.

(2) Any such adaptation or modification as is mentioned in the next preceding sub-section of this section may be made notwithstanding that such adaptation or modification, (as the case may be) is covered or effected by any general adaptation or modification made by this Act, but no adaptation or modification shall be made under this section which is inconsistent with any adaptation or modification made by this Act.

(3) The power conferred by this section on the Executive Council of adapting or modifying Acts of the Oireachtas shall extend and apply to every order, regulation, or other instrument made under any such Act.

Extent and application of general adaptations and modifications.

5. —Every general adaptation or modification made by this Act of Acts of the Oireachtas shall extend and apply to—

(a) private as well as public Acts of the Oireachtas, and

(b) every order, regulation, or other instrument made under any such Act.

Repeals.

6. —The enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule.

Short title.

7. —This Act may be cited as the Seanad Eireann (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1936.