(LRC Revised)

Number 51 of 2012

CIVIL DEFENCE ACT 2012 (Repealed)

REVISED

Updated to 18 July 2023

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of

Civil Defence Act 2012

. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under

Law Reform Commission Act 1975

(3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation

of statute law.

All Acts up to and including the

Criminal Justice

(Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023

(24/2023), enacted 19 July 2023, and all

statutory instruments up to and including the

Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Amendment)

Regulations 2020

(S.I. No. 182 of 2020), made 21 May 2020, were considered in the

preparation of this Revised Act.

Disclaimer: While every care has been taken in the preparation of this Revised Act,

the Law Reform Commission can assume no responsibility for and give no guarantees,

undertakings or warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness or up to date nature

of the information provided and does not accept any liability whatsoever arising from

any errors or omissions. Please notify any errors, omissions and comments by email

to

revisedacts@lawreform.ie.

Number

51

of

2012

CIVIL DEFENCE ACT 2012

(Repealed)

REVISED

Updated to 18 July 2023

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Definitions.

2. Dissolution day.

3. Dissolution of Civil Defence Board.

4. Transfer of functions to Minister.

5. Transfer of land and other property.

6. Transfer of rights and liabilities, and continuation of leases, licences and permissions

granted by dissolved body.

7. Liability for loss occurring before dissolution day.

8. Provisions consequent upon transfer of functions, assets and liabilities to Minister.

9. Final accounts and final annual report of dissolved body.

10. Transfer of members of staff of dissolved body.

11. Preservation of contracts made by dissolved body.

12. Civil defence plans.

13. Annual report of local authority.

14. Grants paid by Minister to local authorities for civil defence purposes.

15. Recruitment of civil defence members.

16. Civil defence register.

17. Repeal.

18. Short title, collective citation and commencement.

Acts Referred to

Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 and 2005

Air-Raid Precautions Act 1939

1939, No. 21

Air-Raid Precautions Acts 1939 and 1946

Carer’s Leave Act 2001

2001, No. 19

Civil Defence Act 2002

2002, No. 16

Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1998

1998, No. 35

Geneva Conventions Act 1962

1962, No. 11

Interpretation Act 2005

2005, No. 23

Local Government Act 2001

2001, No. 37

Maternity Protection Acts 1994 and 2004

Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts 1973 to 2005

Organisation of Working Time Act 1997

1997, No. 20

Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006

Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003

2003, No. 29

Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001

2001, No. 45

Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2011

Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 to 2012

Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2007

Number

51

of

2012

CIVIL DEFENCE ACT 2012

(Repealed)

REVISED

Updated to 18 July 2023

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE CIVIL DEFENCE BOARD; TO TRANSFER CERTAIN

FUNCTIONS OF THE CIVIL DEFENCE BOARD TO THE MINISTER FOR DEFENCE; TO REPEAL THE CIVIL

DEFENCE ACT 2002; AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH.

[26

th December

, 2012]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text)

C1

Act repealed (18.07.2023)

by

Civil Defence Act 2023

(17/2023), s. 13(a), S.I. No. 363 of 2023.

C2

References to “county council” and “city council” construed (1.06.2014) by

Local Government Reform Act 2014

(1/2014), s. 9(2), S.I. No. 214 of 2014.

Cesser and amalgamation of certain local government areas

9.

— ...

(2) Except where otherwise provided for by this Act, a reference, however expressed,

in any enactment—

(a) to a county council or a city council (including a reference construed by section

3(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Principal Act as a reference to a county council or

to a city council, as the case may be) shall, if the context permits, be read as a

reference to a county council, a city council or a city and county council, and

(b) to a county council and a city council (including a reference so construed) shall,

if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council

and a city and county council.

...

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text)

C1

Act repealed (18.07.2023)

by

Civil Defence Act 2023

(17/2023), s. 13(a), S.I. No. 363 of 2023.

C2

References to “county council” and “city council” construed (1.06.2014) by

Local Government Reform Act 2014

(1/2014), s. 9(2), S.I. No. 214 of 2014.

Cesser and amalgamation of certain local government areas

9.

— ...

(2) Except where otherwise provided for by this Act, a reference, however expressed,

in any enactment—

(a) to a county council or a city council (including a reference construed by section

3(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Principal Act as a reference to a county council or

to a city council, as the case may be) shall, if the context permits, be read as a

reference to a county council, a city council or a city and county council, and

(b) to a county council and a city council (including a reference so construed) shall,

if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council

and a city and county council.

...

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Definitions.

2. Dissolution day.

3. Dissolution of Civil Defence Board.

4. Transfer of functions to Minister.

5. Transfer of land and other property.

6. Transfer of rights and liabilities, and continuation of leases, licences and permissions

granted by dissolved body.

7. Liability for loss occurring before dissolution day.

8. Provisions consequent upon transfer of functions, assets and liabilities to Minister.

9. Final accounts and final annual report of dissolved body.

10. Transfer of members of staff of dissolved body.

11. Preservation of contracts made by dissolved body.

12. Civil defence plans.

13. Annual report of local authority.

14. Grants paid by Minister to local authorities for civil defence purposes.

15. Recruitment of civil defence members.

16. Civil defence register.

17. Repeal.

18. Short title, collective citation and commencement.

Number

51

of

2012