Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Act 2025

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Act 2025 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 Open PDF Oscail PDF Priontáil an tAcht Iomlán Previous Section Alt Roimhe Next Section An Chéad Alt Eile Priontáil an tAlt 2025 FINANCE (PROVISION OF ACCESS TO CASH INFRASTRUCTURE) ACT 2025 PART 1 Preliminary and General 1. Short title and commencement 2. Interpretation 3. Expenses 4. Regulations and orders made by Minister PART 2 Access to Cash 5. Access to cash criteria 6. Bank to collect and publish information relating to cash infrastructure 7. Local deficiencies 8. Guidelines 9. Monitoring and enforcement 10. Designated entities 11. Access fees 12. Power of Bank to require information, records, plans, etc. PART 3 Registration of ATM Deployers and CIT Providers 13. Definitions (Part 3) 14. Obligation on ATM deployers and CIT providers to register with Bank 15. Register of ATM deployers and CIT providers 16. Transitional provision for existing ATM deployers and CIT providers 17. Application for registration 18. Grant and refusal of applications for registration 19. Bank may impose conditions on CIT provider when granting application for registration 20. Offence to fail to comply with condition imposed under section 19 21. Term of registration 22. Bank may amend registration 23. Regulatory disclosure statement 24. Revocation of registration on application of holder 25. Revocation of registration other than on application of holder 26. Bank to publish notice of revocation 27. Direction not to carry out business other than as directed 28. Sharing of information and cooperation between Bank and Private Security Authority PART 4 Miscellaneous Powers of Bank 29. Definitions (Part 4) 30. Bank’s power to make regulations 31. Prescribed requirements for ATM operators 32. Offence to fail to comply with prescribed requirements 33. Retention of records 34. Bank’s power to give directions 35. Bank may apply to High Court for orders enforcing directions 36. Power to appoint authorised officers 37. Powers of authorised officers 38. Offences and penalties 39. Offences by bodies corporate 40. Bank’s power to prescribe levies 41. Bank’s power to prescribe fees 42. Surplus or deficiency in income of Bank during financial year PART 5 Consequential Amendments 43. Amendment of section 32C of Act of 1942 44. Amendment of section 32L of Act of 1942 45. Amendment of section 33AK of Act of 1942 46. Amendment of section 57A of Act of 1942 47. Amendment of section 61G of Act of 1942 48. Amendment of Schedule 2 to Act of 1942 49. Amendment of Schedule 5 to Companies Act 2014 PART 6 Miscellaneous Amendments 50. Amendment of section 17A of Central Bank Reform Act 2010 51. Amendment of Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 (No. 26) Central Bank Act 1942 (No. 22) Central Bank Act 1971 (No. 24) Central Bank Reform Act 2010 (No. 23) Companies Act 2014 (No. 38) Credit Union Act 1997 (No. 15) Partnership Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict., c. 39) Private Security Services Act 2004 (No. 12) to 2021 2025 FINANCE (PROVISION OF ACCESS TO CASH INFRASTRUCTURE) ACT 2025 An Act to provide for the continued provision of sufficient and effective access to cash infrastructure for individuals and SMEs; to provide for access to cash criteria; to provide for a framework to manage future changes to access to cash infrastructure in a fair, equitable and transparent manner and for that purpose to provide for review and amendment of the access to cash criteria and for the identification of, and measures to be taken to remedy, local deficiencies in access to cash infrastructure and to ensure compliance with the access to cash criteria; to provide for the designation of entities on whom certain obligations are imposed to remedy local deficiencies and ensure compliance with the access to cash criteria; to provide for the monitoring and enforcement of obligations imposed on designated entities; to provide for the collection and publication of certain information by the Central Bank of Ireland; to provide for regulation by the Central Bank of Ireland of ATM deployers and cash-in-transit providers and for that purpose to provide for the registration of ATM deployers and cash-in-transit providers; to provide for the oversight of ATM operators and cash in transit providers and enforcement by the Central Bank of Ireland of compliance by ATM operators and cash-in-transit providers with their obligations under this Act; to provide for the sharing of information and cooperation between the Central Bank of Ireland and the Private Security Authority; for those and other purposes to amend the Central Bank Act 1942, the Central Bank Reform Act 2010, the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 and the Companies Act 2014; and to provide for related matters. th May, Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: