S.I. No. 359/2016 - Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 (Commencement) Order 2016.

1. This Order may be cited as the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 (Commencement) Order 2016.

2. The 11th day of July 2016 is appointed as the day on which the following provisions of the

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014

(No. 34 of 2014) shall come into operation

(

a

) section 27 (other than paragraphs (

a

) and (

c

) of that section);

(

b

) section 30 (other than paragraph (

a

) of that section).

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

8 July 2016.

LEO VARADKAR,

Minister for Social Protection.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

This Order commences certain sections of the

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014

to provide that the Minister of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht may hold, for searching, an electronic copy of historical births, deaths and marriage records with effect from 11th July 2016.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

15

th July

, 2016.

I, LEO VARADKAR, Minister for Social Protection, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 1

(3) of the

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014

(No. 34 of 2014), hereby order as follows