(LRC Revised)

Number 7 of 2024

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024

REVISED

Updated to 31 December 2025

Changes to legislation

as of 10 July 2026, this Act is up to date with all changes known to be in force.

This Revised Act is an administrative

consolidation of the

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous

Provisions Act 2024

. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance

with its function under the

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

National Training Fund (Amendment) Act 2025

(21/2025), enacted 23 December 2025, and all statutory instruments up to and including

European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning Iraq) Regulations 2026

(S.I. No. 1 of 2026), made 6 January 2026, 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

7

of

2024

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF

LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024

REVISED

Updated to

31 December 2025

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, collective citation and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Orders and regulations

4. Saver

5. Application of Principal Act to Limerick

6. Expenses

7. Review of Act

PART 2

Mayor of Limerick

8. Establishment day

9. Mayor of Limerick

10. Functions of Mayor

10A. Application of certain

provisions of Act of 2024 in relation to Limerick City and County Council

11. Effect of election as Mayor at mayoral by-election on membership of local authority

12. Resignation of Mayor

13. Vacancies

14. Temporary absence

15. Remuneration

16. Funding for performance of functions of Mayor

17. Membership of council

18. Staff of Mayor

19. Special adviser to Mayor

20. Amendments to Principal Act relating to office of Mayor

PART 3

Other Structural Changes

21. Abolition of office of Cathaoirleach and Leas-Chathaoirleach of council

22. Príomh Chomhairleoir

23. Functions of Príomh Chomhairleoir

24. Leas-Phríomh Chomhairleoir

25. Functions of Leas-Phríomh Chomhairleoir

26. Director general

27. Delegation of functions of Mayor to director general

28. Deputy director general

PART 4

Additional Functions of Mayor and Mayoral Office Structures

29. Definitions (Part 4)

30. Limerick Mayoral and Government Consultative Forum

31. Mayoral programme

32. Limerick Mayoral Advisory and Implementation Committee

33. Limerick Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board

34. Limerick Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board Transport Sub-Group

35. Consultation with Mayor

PART 5

Amendment of Certain Enactments in Connection with Election of Mayor

36. Amendment of Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937

37. Amendment of Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947

38. Amendment of Act of 1992

39. Amendment of Electoral Act 1997

40. Amendment of European Parliament Elections Act 1997

41. Amendment of Litter Pollution Act 1997

42. Amendment of Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004

43. Amendment of Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006

44. Amendment of Data Protection Act 2018

45. Amendment of Act of 2022

PART 6

Plebiscites on Direct Election of Mayors

46. Definitions (Part 6)

47. Plebiscite

48. Advance polling

49. Regulations

50. Electoral offences

51. Persons entitled to vote in plebiscite

52. Report to Houses of Oireachtas

53. Cost of holding of plebiscite

54. Repeal of Part 6 of Local Government Act 2019

PART 7

Removal of Mayor from Office

55. Definitions (Part 7)

56. Proposal for removal of Mayor from office

57. Statement of response by Mayor

58. Special meeting to consider proposal

59. Appointment of panel

60. Further statement of response and additional information to panel

61. Attendance before panel

62. Recommendation of panel

63. Order for removal of Mayor

64. Regulations

PART 8

Miscellaneous Provisions

65. Amendment of Affordable Housing Act 2021

66. Amendment of section 10 of Housing Finance Agency Act 1981

67. Amendment of section 42B of National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act

2014

68. Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act

69. Amendment of Land Development Agency Act 2021

SCHEDULE 1

PART 1

Enactments for Purposes of Sections 10 and 23

PART 2

Enactments for Purposes of Sections 10 and 26

SCHEDULE 2

PART 1

Election of Mayor

Chapter 1

Preliminary and General

Chapter 2

Returning Officer

Chapter 3

Manner of voting

Chapter 4

Nominations

Chapter 5

Agents of candidates

Chapter 6

Death of candidate

Chapter 7

Postal voting

Chapter 8

Voting by Special Voters

Chapter 9

Arrangements for Poll

Chapter

10

Poll

Chapter

11

Arrangement for counting of votes

Chapter

12

Rules for counting of votes

Chapter

13

Retention, inspection and disposal of documents

Chapter

14

Electoral offences

Chapter

15

Petitions

PART 2

Form of Ballot Paper

SCHEDULE 3

Application of Principal Act to Limerick

Acts Referred to

Abattoirs Act 1988

(No. 8)

Affordable Housing Act 2021

(No. 25)

Air Pollution Act 1987

(No. 6)

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013

(No. 15)

Building Control Act 1990

(No. 3)

Building Societies Act 1989

(No. 17)

Central Bank Act 1971

(No. 24)

Civil Defence Act 2023

(No. 17)

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015

(No. 46)

Control of Dogs Act 1986

(No. 32)

Control of Horses Act 1996

(No. 37)

Coroners Act 1962

(No. 9)

County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Act 2014

(No. 4)

Credit Union Act 1997

(No. 15)

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018

(No. 9)

Dangerous Substances Act 1972

(No. 10)

Data Protection Act 2018

(No. 7)

Derelict Sites Act 1990

(No. 14)

Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010

(No. 29)

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004

(No. 15)

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006

(No. 33)

Electoral Act 1992

(No. 23)

Electoral Act 1997

(No. 25)

Electoral Reform Act 2022

(No. 30)

Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992

(No. 7)

European Parliament (Irish Constituency Members) Act 2009

(No. 17)

European Parliament Elections Act 1997

(No. 2)

Explosives Act 1875

(38 & 39 Vict., c. 17)

Finance (No. 2) Act 1992

(No. 28)

Finance Act 1993

(No. 13)

Fire Services Act 1981

(No. 30)

Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998

(No. 29)

Freedom of Information Act 2014

(No. 30)

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023

(No. 26)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979

(No. 27)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992

(No. 18)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997

(No. 21)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

(No. 22)

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014

(No. 21)

Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998

(No. 33)

Housing Act 1966

(No. 21)

Housing Act 1988

(No. 28)

Housing Acts 1966 to 2021

Housing Finance Agency Act 1981

(No. 37)

Housing Finance Agency Acts 1981 to 2007

Interpretation Act 2005

(No. 23)

Intoxicating Liquor Act 1953

(No. 30)

Intoxicating Liquor Act 1960

(No. 18)

Land Development Agency Act 2021

(No. 26)

Litter Pollution Act 1997

(No. 12)

Local Authorities (Mutual Assurance) Act 1926

(No. 34)

Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act 1926

(No. 39)

Local Authorities (Traffic Wardens) Act 1975

(No. 14)

Local Authorities (Works) Act 1949

(No. 17)

Local Elections (Disclosure of Donations and Expenditure) Act 1999

(No. 7)

Local Elections (Petitions and Disqualifications) Act 1974

(No. 8)

Local Elections Acts 1963 to 1992

Local Elections Acts 1974 to 2014

Local Government (Financial Provisions) (No. 2) Act 1983

(No. 21)

Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997

(No. 29)

Local Government (Multi-Storey Buildings) Act 1988

(No. 29)

Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1948

(No. 3)

Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act 1964

(No. 29)

Local Government (Superannuation) Act 1980

(No. 8)

Local Government (Water Pollution) Act 1977

(No. 1)

Local Government Act 1941

(No. 23)

Local Government Act 1991

(No. 11)

Local Government Act 1998

(No. 16)

Local Government Act 2001

(No. 37)

Local Government Act 2019

(No. 1)

Local Government Acts 1925 to 2023

Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019

(No. 24)

Maritime Safety Act 2005

(No. 11)

Maternity Protection Act 1994

(No. 34)

Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014

(No. 43)

Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Acts 1938 to 2018

National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1954

(No. 37)

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014

(No. 23)

National Treasury Management Agency Acts 1990 to 2022

Official Languages Act 2003

(No. 32)

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 1994

(No. 21)

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts 1938 to 1998

Organisation of Working Time Act 1997

(No. 20)

Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act 1851

(14 & 15 Vict., c.93)

Planning and Development Act 2000

(No. 30)

Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024

(No. 1)

Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838

(1 & 2 Vict., c. 56.)

Presidential Elections Act 1993

(No. 28)

Prompt Payment of Accounts Act 1997

(No. 31)

Protected Disclosures Act 2014

(No. 14)

Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878

(41 & 42 Vict., c. 52)

Referendum Act 1994

(No. 12)

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022

(No. 28)

Residential Tenancies Act 2004

(No. 27)

Roads Act 1993

(No. 14)

Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947

(No. 42)

Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937

(No. 30)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

(No. 26)

Statutory Declarations Act 1938

(No. 37)

Succession Act 1965

(No. 27)

Trustee Savings Banks Act 1989

(No. 21)

Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015

(No. 33)

Waste Management Act 1996

(No. 10)

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022

(No. 48)

Water Services Act 2007

(No. 30)

Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011

(No. 29)

Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000

(No. 38)

Wildlife Act 1976

(No. 39)

Number

7

of

2024

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF

LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024

REVISED

Updated to

31 December 2025

An Act to provide for the establishment of an office of mayor for the administrative

area of Limerick City and County Council and the election of a person to that office;

to provide for the conferral of certain functions on the said mayor; to provide for

ancillary structural changes in connection with the governance of that administrative

area by Limerick City and County Council; to provide for the holding of plebiscites

on the question of providing for the creation of offices of mayors for the administrative

areas in relation to which such plebiscites are held and the election by the electors

of those administrative areas of persons to such offices; for those purposes to amend

the

Electoral Act 1992

, the

Electoral Act 1997

, the

Litter Pollution Act 1997

, the

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004

, the

Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006

and the

Electoral Reform Act 2022

, to apply with modifications and amend the

Local Government Act 2001

, and to repeal Part 6 of the

Local Government Act 2019

; to extend the circumstances within which a person may apply for an affordable dwelling

purchase arrangement under the

Affordable Housing Act 2021

and for that purpose to amend that Act; to provide for consultation with the Public

Appointments Service prior to a declaration under the

Local Government Act 2001

in relation to qualifications in respect of certain posts in the local government

sector and for that purpose to further amend that Act; to increase the borrowing limit

of the Housing Finance Agency and for that purpose to amend the

Housing Finance Agency Act 1981

; to extend the power of the Minister for Finance to direct the National Treasury

Management Agency to pay money to the Land Development Agency in certain circumstances

and for that purpose to amend the

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014

; to provide for the raising of certain funds by the Land Development Agency and for

that purpose to amend the

Land Development Agency Act 2021

; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[6

th March

, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows

CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title, collective citation and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Orders and regulations

4. Saver

5. Application of Principal Act to Limerick

6. Expenses

7. Review of Act

PART 2

Mayor of Limerick

8. Establishment day

9. Mayor of Limerick

10. Functions of Mayor

10A. Application of certain

provisions of Act of 2024 in relation to Limerick City and County Council

11. Effect of election as Mayor at mayoral by-election on membership of local authority

12. Resignation of Mayor

13. Vacancies

14. Temporary absence

15. Remuneration

16. Funding for performance of functions of Mayor

17. Membership of council

18. Staff of Mayor

19. Special adviser to Mayor

20. Amendments to Principal Act relating to office of Mayor

PART 3

Other Structural Changes

21. Abolition of office of Cathaoirleach and Leas-Chathaoirleach of council

22. Príomh Chomhairleoir

23. Functions of Príomh Chomhairleoir

24. Leas-Phríomh Chomhairleoir

25. Functions of Leas-Phríomh Chomhairleoir

26. Director general

27. Delegation of functions of Mayor to director general

28. Deputy director general

PART 4

Additional Functions of Mayor and Mayoral Office Structures

29. Definitions (Part 4)

30. Limerick Mayoral and Government Consultative Forum

31. Mayoral programme

32. Limerick Mayoral Advisory and Implementation Committee

33. Limerick Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board

34. Limerick Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board Transport Sub-Group

35. Consultation with Mayor

PART 5

Amendment of Certain Enactments in Connection with Election of Mayor

36. Amendment of Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act 1937

37. Amendment of Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947

38. Amendment of Act of 1992

39. Amendment of Electoral Act 1997

40. Amendment of European Parliament Elections Act 1997

41. Amendment of Litter Pollution Act 1997

42. Amendment of Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004

43. Amendment of Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006

44. Amendment of Data Protection Act 2018

45. Amendment of Act of 2022

PART 6

Plebiscites on Direct Election of Mayors

46. Definitions (Part 6)

47. Plebiscite

48. Advance polling

49. Regulations

50. Electoral offences

51. Persons entitled to vote in plebiscite

52. Report to Houses of Oireachtas

53. Cost of holding of plebiscite

54. Repeal of Part 6 of Local Government Act 2019

PART 7

Removal of Mayor from Office

55. Definitions (Part 7)

56. Proposal for removal of Mayor from office

57. Statement of response by Mayor

58. Special meeting to consider proposal

59. Appointment of panel

60. Further statement of response and additional information to panel

61. Attendance before panel

62. Recommendation of panel

63. Order for removal of Mayor

64. Regulations

PART 8

Miscellaneous Provisions

65. Amendment of Affordable Housing Act 2021

66. Amendment of section 10 of Housing Finance Agency Act 1981

67. Amendment of section 42B of National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act

2014

68. Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act

69. Amendment of Land Development Agency Act 2021

SCHEDULE 1

PART 1

Enactments for Purposes of Sections 10 and 23

PART 2

Enactments for Purposes of Sections 10 and 26

SCHEDULE 2

PART 1

Election of Mayor

Chapter 1

Preliminary and General

Chapter 2

Returning Officer

Chapter 3

Manner of voting

Chapter 4

Nominations

Chapter 5

Agents of candidates

Chapter 6

Death of candidate

Chapter 7

Postal voting

Chapter 8

Voting by Special Voters

Chapter 9

Arrangements for Poll

Chapter

10

Poll

Chapter

11

Arrangement for counting of votes

Chapter

12

Rules for counting of votes

Chapter

13

Retention, inspection and disposal of documents

Chapter

14

Electoral offences

Chapter

15

Petitions

PART 2

Form of Ballot Paper

SCHEDULE 3

Application of Principal Act to Limerick