Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage

4:30 pm

Photo of Phil HoganPhil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I move amendment No. 173:

In page 155, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:

No. 32 of 1986











Control of Dogs Act 1986Section 1
Definition of “local authority”
Substitute:
“ ‘local authority’ means a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act 2001 (as amended by the Local Government Act 2013); and references to the functional area of a local authority shall be construed accordingly and local authority shall, as the context may require, include any other person with whom a local authority has entered into an arrangement pursuant to section 15 of this Act;”.

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