The Gazette 1982

GAZETTE

JULY/AUGUS T

1982

Title of Bill

Effect

No. of Act

Introduced

Present Position

No. 14 of 1982

Finance Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

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. To provide for the purchase of additional shares in the Company by the Minister for Finance and to increase the limit of the Ministerial guarantee of borrowing by the Company. Amends and extends the British & Irish Steam Packet Company Limited (Acquisition) Acts, 1965 to 1979. To provide for the establishment of urban develop- ment commissions to secure the regeneration of designated urban areas. Designates the Custom House Docks site in Dublin and the medieval wall- ed city area of Dublin as urban development areas and empowers the Minister to designate other areas by order. To increase the authorised share capital of the Company, to increase the value of the shares which the Minister for Finance may take up and to increase the limit of the Ministerial guarantee of moneys borrowed by the Company. Amends and extends the Irish Steel Holdings Limited Acts, 1960 to 1979. To implement the provisions ofthe E.E.C. Second Directive on company law. The Directive stipulates procedures for the formation of public companies limited by shares or limited by guarantee and having a share capital and regulates the subscrip- tion, maintenance, increase or reduction of their capital. The aim of the Directive is to ensure, throughout the E.E.C., minimum equivalent pro- tection for both the shareholders and creditors in relation to the capital of such companies. The Bill also provides for companies changing between limited and unlimited status. To amend section 5 (3) of the Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (Definition of "workmen"). To amend the Fuels (Control of Supplies) Act, 1971, to enable the Minister to require that oil companies and other oil importers purchase a per- centage of their total requirements from the State- owned Whitegate refinery. To introduce a new penal measure, the Community Service Order, whereby an offender, of 16 years of age or over, who is convicted of a criminal offence may be ordered by the Court to perform unpaid work for the benefit of the community. To increase borrowing powers of the Gas Board and to increase the limit ofthe Ministerial guarantee of borrowings by the Board. Amends and extends the Gas Acts, 1976 and 1980. To amend Section 29 of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1976 (which imposes limits on the duration of planning per- missions); to make provision regarding the validity of certain permissions and approvals granted on appeal; to enable the Minister to issue general policy directives as to planning and development to planning authorities as well as to An Bord Pleanala and to provide for other related matters. As above. Differs in some details.

20/5/82 (Dáil)

Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas 14/7/82.

British & Irish Steam Packet Company Limited (Acquisi- tion) (Amendment) Bill, 1982

No. 9 of 1982

19/5/82 (Dáil)

Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas 9/6/82

Urban Development Areas Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

19/5/82 (Dáil)

Second stage passed 16/6/82

No. 13 of 1982

Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas 7/7/82

Irish Steel Holdings Limited (Amendment) Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

9/6/82 (Dáil)

Companies (Amendment) Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

10/6/82 (Seanad)

Passed by Seanad Éireann 1 /7/82

As introduced.

11/6/82 (Dáil)

Trade Disputes (Amendment) Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.) Fuels (Control of Supplies) Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

14/6/82 (Dáil)

Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas 15/7/82

No. 18 of 1982

16/6/82 (Dáil — Private Members Bill

As introduced.

Community Service Orders Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

17/6/82 (Dáil)

As introduced.

Criminal Justice (Community Servke) Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

No. 17 of 1982

Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas 14/7/82.

16/6/82 (Dáil)

Gas (Amendment) Bill, 1982

No. 21 of 1982

Passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas, 22/7/82.

15/6/82 (Dáil)

Local Government (Planning and Development) Bill, 1982 (plus Explanatory Memo.)

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