S.I. No. 16/2013 - Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2012 (Commencement) Order 2013.

1. This Order may be cited as the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2012 (Commencement) Order 2013.

2. The 23rd day of January 2013 is appointed as the day on which the

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2012

(No. 48 of 2012) comes into operation.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

21 January 2013.

JOAN BURTON,

Minister for Social Protection.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2012

provides for the amendment and extension of certain provisions of the

Civil Registration Act 2004

so as to extend the categories of bodies and organisations that may apply to an tArd-Chláraitheoir (the Registrar General) for the registration of members of that body or organisation to solemnise marriages. The Act provides for secular bodies, as defined in the Act, to apply for registration in the Register of Solemnisers which was established under the

Civil Registration Act 2004

. This Order provides for the commencement of the provisions of the Act from the 23rd of January 2013.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

25

th January

, 2013.

I, JOAN BURTON, Minister for Social Protection, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 10

(3) of the

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2012

(No. 48 of 2012), hereby order as follows