AI Summary of 5. General provisions with respect to regulations.
The Minister is empowered to issue regulations pertaining to matters specified within the Act. These regulations play a crucial role in clarifying and operationalising the statutory provisions.
Once enacted, every regulation must be presented to both Houses of the Oireachtas promptly. Should either House pass a resolution to annul the regulation within twenty-one days of its presentation, the regulation will be revoked. Importantly, this annulment does not affect the validity of actions taken under the regulation prior to its annulment.
5. General provisions with respect to regulations.
(1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.
(2) Every regulation made under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.