The Gazette 1995

GAZETTE

JULY 1995

L E G I S L A T I O N

U P D A T E

- PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE

1995 LEGISLATION UPDATE - 1 January

1995 - 10 June

1995

No. Title of Act and Date Passed

Commencement Date /s

1. Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1995 (27 January, 1995) Amends the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1977, in order to provide for the appointment of 17 Ministers of State at Departments of State. 2. Adoptive Leave Act, 1995 (15 March, 1995) Provides for the grant of adoptive leave to female employees and, in certain circumstances, to male employees for the purpose of child adoption; extends to them the protection against unfair dismissal conferred by the Unfair Dismissals Act, 1977, and provides for connected matters. 3. Social Welfare Act, 1995 (5 April, 1995) Provides for the increases in the rates of social welfare payments announced in the Budget and for a number of other amendments to the Social Welfare Scheme. 4. Heritage Act, 1995 (10 April, 1995) Establishes An Chomhairle Oidhreachta, the Heritage Council, to perform certain functions in relation to the physical heritage. 5. Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act, 1995 (12 May, 1995) Prescribes the conditions subject to which certain information relating to pregnancy termination services lawfully available outside the State may be made available in the State. Arises from the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution which affirms the right to obtain or make available such information subject to such conditions as may be laid down by law. Amends the Indecent Advertisements Act, 1889, and the Censorship of Publications Acts, 1929 to 1967, and provides for related matters. Establishes a Joint Committee on European Affairs by transferring the statutory functions exercised by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs in relation to the supervision of E.C. secondary legislation to the Joint Committee on European Affairs. 7. Road Traffic Act, 1995 (25 May, 1995) Amends the disqualification requirements of section 26 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (as inserted by section 26 of the Road Traffic Act, 1994). 8. Finance Act, 1995 (2 June, 1995) Charges and imposes certain duties of customs and inland revenue (including excise); amends the law relating to customs and inland revenue (including excise) and makes further provisions in connection with finance. 6. European Communities (Amendment) Act, 1995 (23 May, 1995)

27 January, 1995

20 March, 1995 (S.I. No. 64 of 1995)

See Act for various commencement dates. Commencement Orders to be made for some sections. Section 11 (S .I. No. 93 of 1995); Section 14 (S.I. No. 112 of 1995).

10 April, 1995 10 July, 1995 - Establishment Day (S.I. No. 177 of 1995).

12 May, 1995

23 May, 1995

25 May 1995

See section 1 79 of the Act and commencement sections of various chapters of the Act

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