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GAZETTE
JULY-AUGUST
1979
in cash and for other matters related to the payment of
salaries or wages. (Initiated 2/2/79 - No. 3 of 1979).
The Bill applies to employees engaged in the trades
specified in the Truck Act, 1831, The Truck (Amend-
ment) Act, 1887, and the Hosiery Manufacture (Wages)
Act, 1894.
Fisheries Bill, 1979 entitled An Act to establish a body
to be known as the Central Fisheries Board and to define
its functions, to enable Regional Fisheries to be
established and to define their functions, to dissolve the
Inland Fisheries Trust Incorporated and certain Boards of
Conservators established by The Fisheries (Consolidation)
Act, 1959, to provide for other matters connected with
the foregoing and otherwise to amend and extend the
Fisheries Acts, 1959-1978. (Initiated (Dail) 22/6/78;
Initiated (Seanad) 14/2/79 - No. 4 of 1979; as amended
in Committee 21/3/79).
The object of the Bill is to secure the more effective
conservation, management and development of inland
fisheries through the re-organisation and strengthening of
the existing administrative structures. Proposals in the Bill
are based on the Report of the Inland Fisheries Com-
mission, July, 1979 (Prl 4712).
Imposition of Duties (Amendment) Bill, 1979 entitled
An Act to amend the Imposition of Duties Act, 1957.
(Initiated 21/2/79) - No. 5 of 1979). Amends Section
5 of the 1957 Act.
Under this new Section none of the provisions of the
1957 Act may be used to impose a levy or charge on the
sale into processing or for export of the following agri-
cultural commodities - cattle, milk, pigs, sheep, sugar-
beet and cereals.
Housing (Gacltacht) (Amendment) Bill, 1979 entitled
An Act to amend and extend the Housing (Gaeltacht)
Acts, 1929 to 1967. (Initiated 23/2/79) - No. 6 of
1979).
Provides for the amount of a building grant available in
respect of dwelling houses in a Gaeltacht area, either on
the mainland or on an off-shore island, the erection of
which commenced (1) on or after 1st January, 1973, and
before 27th May, 1977; (2) on or after 27th May, 1977.
Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Bill, 1979 entitled
An Act to amend the law relating to the renewal of leases
and tenancies and to compensation for improvements and
for disturbance or loss of title and for these and other
purposes to amend the Landlord and Tenant Acts, 1931
to 1978. (Initiated (Seanad) 28/2/79) - No. 7 of
1979; passed by Seanad Eireann 2/5/79).
Provides for the repeal and re-enactment with amend-
ments of the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 and the
Landlord and Tenant (Revisionary Leases) Act, 1958.
Contains provision that new leases under Part 3 of the
Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, will now be subject to
rent review. Recommendations for the amendments in the
Act were made by the Landlord and Tenant Commission
in the Report on Occupational Tenancies under the Land-
lord and Tenant Act, 1931, (Pr. No. 9685) and the Re-
port on Certain Questions arising under the Landlord and
Tenant Acts, 1958 and 1967 (Prl 59).
Gaming and Lotteries Bill, 1979 entitled An Act to
amend Sections 4, 37 and 42 of the Gaming and Lotteries
Act, 1956. (Initiated 23/3/79 - No. 8 of 1979; as
passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas 14/3/79).
Amends the 1956 Act to bring within the jurisdiction
of Section 4 (i) (c) the operation of slot-machines designed
to deliver a money prize as contained in Section 10 of the
1956 Act but which was repealed by the Gaming and
Lotteries Act, 1970. The introduction of this Bill follows
the Supreme Court decision in
D.P.P. (Broderick) v.
Flanagan,
19/1/79.
Social Welfare Bill, 1979 entitled An Act to amend
and extend the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1978, the
Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1978, the
Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1978, the
Social Welfare (Children's Allowances) Acts, 1944 to
1977, the Social Welfare (Supplementary Welfare
Allowances) Act, 1975, and the Social Welfare Acts,
1952 to 1978. (Initiated 5/3/79 - No. 9 of 1979; as
passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas 22/3/79).
Designed to give effect to the increases of 12% and
16% in the rates of payment and other changes in the
schemes of Social Assistance and Social Insurance
announced in the Budget Statement on 7th February,
1979. Also provides for consequential increases in rates
of payment under the occupational injuries benefit scheme
and for certain changes in the unemployment assistance
scheme as it applies to certain smallholders.
Transport (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, 1979, en-
titled an Act to make provision in relation to certain
bridges in the County Borough of Cork and in relation to
the members of the Board and the chief officer of Coras
Iompair Eireann. (Initiated 29/3/79 — No. 10 of
1979).
The Bill gives Statutory effect to an Agreement of
1977 made between Cork Corporation, Coras Iompair
Eireann and the Cork Harbour Commissioners, whereby
it was agreed that C.I.E. would convert two opening
railway bridges over the river Lee into fixed bridges and
vest in the Corporation all the right title and interest of
C.I.E. in these bridges.
The Bill also makes provision for the remuneration and
allowances of the General Manager of C.I.E. and
Members of the Board.
Finance Bill, 1979, entitled an Act to charge and im-
pose certain duties of customs and inland revenue (in-
cluding excise), to amend the law relating to customs and
inland revenue (including excise) and to make further pro-
visions in connection with finance. (Initiated 5/4/79 -
No. 11 of 1979).
The provisions of Part I of the Act relate to Income
Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax; Part II to
Customs and Excise; Part III to Value -Added Tax; Part
IV to Stamp Duties. Part V contains miscellaneous pro-
visions.
Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Bill en-
titled an Act to prohibit broadcasting in the State save
under and in accordance with a licence issued by the
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and to amend and ex-
tend the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, 1926 to 1972.
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