Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2024 Permanent Page URL View by Section Amharc de réir Ailt View Full Act Amharc ar an Acht Iomlán Bill History Stair Bille Commencement, Amendments, SIs made under the Act Tosach Feidhme, Leasuithe, IRí arna ndéanamh faoin Acht Revised Act Acht Athbh… Open PDF Oscail PDF Priontáil an tAcht Iomlán Previous Section Alt Roimhe Next Section An Chéad Alt Eile Priontáil an tAlt 2024 LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024 PART 1 Preliminary and General 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 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 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 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 PART 2 Form of Ballot Paper SCHEDULE 3 Application of Principal Act to Limerick 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 Finance Agency Act 1981 (No. 37) 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 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 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) National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1954 (No. 37) National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 (No. 23) Official Languages Act 2003 (No. 32) Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act 1994 (No. 21) 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) 2024 LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024 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. th March , 2024] Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: