S.I. No. 551/2020 - Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019 (Section 16) (Commencement) Order 2020

1. This Order may be cited as the Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019 (Section 16) (Commencement) Order 2020.

2. The 20

th

day of November 2020 is appointed as the day on which

Section 16

of the

Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019

(No. 48 of 2019) shall come into operation.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

26 November, 2020.

HEATHER HUMPHREYS,

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 provides for the commencement of

Section 16

of the

Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019

.

Section 16 repeals

section 282

of the

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

which currently provides for reduced cost life event (birth, marriage or death) certificates.

This Order will be commenced in parallel with the commencement of sections 27(a), 27(c) and 30(a) of the

Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014

. Those provisions will allow regulations to be made by the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the purpose of setting the fees (if any) for the provision of life event certificates.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

1

st December,

2020.

I, HEATHER HUMPHREYS, Minister for Social Protection, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 1

(3) of the

Social Welfare (No. 2) Act 2019

(No. 48 of 2019), hereby order as follows