Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 10:

In page 24, to delete lines 33 to 38.

These amendments delete identical provisions inserted on Committee Stage to enable the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 and the Local Government Water Pollution Act 1977 to be used as the basis for regulations to transpose EU directives on related matters. In the absence of such a provision, any treaty or Act of the EU would require new legislation to enable it to be transposed. However, since Committee Stage was completed, the European Communities Act 2007 has been enacted with a general provision similar to those being repealed, thereby obviating the need for separate provision in any other enactment. The related provisions in the Bill are therefore redundant and the proposal to delete them makes good drafting sense.

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