Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 5:

In page 10, after line 41, to insert the following:

"(2) Subject to sections 78, 85(3), 92(2) and 97(2), every order or regulation or licence, permit or authorisation made or granted under an enactment or a provision of an enactment repealed by subsection (1) is revoked.".

This is necessitated by the Interpretation Act 2005, which is operative from 1 January 2006. That Act radically changed the position of statutory instruments made under Acts which are subsequently repealed. Those statutory instruments are no longer automatically revoked as a consequence of the repeal of the Acts under which they are made. They must be specifically revoked if no longer required as is proposed in subsection (2) for inclusion in section 4 of the Bill.

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