S.I. No. 8/2014 - Local Government (Financial Procedures and Audit) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Financial Procedures and Audit) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.

(2) The Local Government (Financial Procedures and Audit) Regulations 2002 (

S.I. No. 508 of 2002

) and these Regulations may be cited together as the Local Government (Financial Procedures and Audit) Regulations 2002 and 2014 and shall be construed together as one.

Commencement

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 13th January 2014.

Amendment to the Local Government (Financial Procedures and Audit) Regulations 2002

3. The Local Government (Financial Procedures and Audit) Regulations 2002 are amended by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (8)

“(8) The prescribed period for the holding of a budget meeting by a county council in respect of a local financial year shall be the 24th day of November of the previous year to the 30th day of January of the said local financial year.”

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

13 January 2014.

PHIL HOGAN,

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These Regulations amend the Local Government (Financial Procedures and Audit) Regulations 2002 by extending the prescribed period for the holding of a budget meeting.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

17

th January

, 2014.

I, PHIL HOGAN, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 4

and

6

of the

Local Government Act 1946

(No. 24 of 1946) and

sections 3

,

4

,

100

,

101

,

102

,

103

,

111

and

118

of the

Local Government Act 2001

(No. 37 of 2001) hereby make the following regulations

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