S.I. No. 423/2025 - Public Health (Alcohol) (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Alcohol) (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

2. The Public Health (Alcohol) (Labelling) Regulations 2023 (

S.I. No. 249 of 2023

) are amended, in Regulation 2, by the substitution of “3 years after the date on which they are made.” for “on the 22nd day of May 2026”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

3 September, 2025.

JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

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

)

These Regulations amend the date of coming into operation of the Public Health (Alcohol) (Labelling) Regulations (S.I. No. 249/2023)

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

12

th September,

2025.

I, JENNIFER CARROLL MACNEILL, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 5

(1) and

12

(10) of the

Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018

(No. 24 of 2018) having taken into account any expert research made available to me on the effectiveness of including the matters referred to in paragraphs (i) to (vi) of subsection (1) of

section 12

of that Act on alcohol product containers, documents, notices and websites referred to in that section and, having regard to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (f) of subsection (11) of that section, hereby make the following regulations