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Encyclopedia > Act of the Oireachtas

The Republic of Ireland has a common law legal system with four main sources of law:

Contents
1 Historical
2 Irish Statute Book
3 See also
4 External links

4.1 Government
4.2 Other

Historical

The state became independent in 1922 as the Irish Free State, its constitution the Irish Free State Constitution, carried all previous British, English and Irish law forward into law. In 1937 the state proclaimed a new constitution, the Constitution of Ireland, and renamed the state as Éire now generally known as the Republic of Ireland. All previous law was also carried forward at this time.


Irish Statute Book

The Irish Statute Book in its broadest sense is the total of all laws which are applicable the Republic of Ireland at this time, these include all British, English and Irish laws made over the centuries. All primary and secondary legislation enacted since 1922 have been made available for free access to all via the internet by the Office of the Attorney-General of Ireland.


See also

External links

Government

  • Irish Statute Book - main site (http://www.irishstatutebook.ie)
  • Acts of the Oireachtas - Irish & English (http://acts.oireachtas.ie/index.html)
  • Office of the Attorney General of Ireland (http://www.www.attorneygeneral.ie)

Other

  • Irish Law Site at UCC (http://www.irishlaw.org)
  • LLRX.com - Guide to Irish Law (http://www.llrx.com/features/irish.htm)

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Seanad Éireann - Volume 180 - 29 June, 2005 - Interpretation Bill 2000: Committee Stage. (12219 words)
The Oireachtas, by means of an Act, cannot impose, in a case such as this, a mandatory restriction on the future exercise of its own legislative powers.
The Houses of the Oireachtas are an important reference point and for all the rubbish I hear uttered in the House on occasion, I have heard a great deal of good sense talked by Members with different perspectives, which set issues very much in the context of the country as it is today.
Acts of the European Community and European Union, normally directives and regulations but also the treaties of the European Community, are often referred to in Acts of the Oireachtas and statutory instruments.
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