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December 1995
No.
Title of Act and Date Passed
Commencement Date/s
30.
Securitisation (Proceeds of Certain Mortgages) Act, 1995
(30 November, 1995)
Provides for the securitisation
of the receipts arising from
local authority
mortgages.
30 November, 1995
31.
Courts and Court Officers Act, 1995 (15 December, 1995)
Provides: for increases in the numbers of judges of the
Supreme Court, High Court, Circuit Court and District
Court; that the Supreme Court may sit in divisions and for
the abolition of the Court of Criminal Appeal and the transfer
of its jurisdiction
to the Supreme Court; for the
establishment
of a Judicial Appointments Advisory Board; for the transfer
of trials in criminal cases by judges of the Circuit Court; for
the eligibility of solicitors for appointment as Circuit Court
judges and that a Circuit Court Judge of four years standing
shall be qualified for appointment as a Judge of the Supreme
Court or the High Court.
15 December, 1995
Commencement Order/s to be made
for ss.3(2), 4, 5 and 44
32.
Civil Legal Aid Act, 1995 (16 December, 1995)
Places the Scheme of Civil Legal Aid and Advice on a
statutory footing; provides for the establishment of a
statutory Legal Aid Board to administer the Scheme.
16 December, 1995
Establishment Order to be made
33.
Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1995 (21 December, 1995)
Allows shops and supermarkets which are licensed to sell
intoxicating liquor by retail and other licensed premises to
remain open on Christmas Eve or 23 December in any year
that either day falls on a Sunday, as if it were a weekday.
Amends and extends the Licensing Acts 1833 to 1994;
amends the Registration of Clubs Acts, 1904 to 1988.
21 December, 1995
34.
Appropriation Act, 1995 (21 December, 1995)
21 December, 1995
Appropriates
to the proper purposes sums granted out of
the Central Fund. Provides for the setting up, and payments
on an ex-gratia basis out of, a special account to be funded
from moneys provided by the Oireachtas in the Health Vote
in respect of a scheme of compensation established or to be
established by the Minister for Health.
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35.
Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1995
21 December, 1995
(21 December, 1995)
Makes further provision in relation to the production,
supply, sale, transmission, distribution and use of certain
forms of energy.
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