The Gazette 1996

f/AZETTE

JUUlr

Lnree months notice prior to the

commencement of the 1995 Act (on 1

August 1996, cf. M 996) 14 ILT 106) to

ensure that such a marriage is not null

and void.

Maintenance Act 1994 (Designated

Jurisdictions)

(United

States

America) Order 1996 (SI No. 118 of

1996)

The effect of this Order is to designate

as jurisdictions for the purposes of Part

III of the Maintenance Act 1994 all

constituent states of the United States of

America.

Southern Health Board v. C.H. and Ors

(Costello I) 23 January 1996

Evidence - infant - fit persons order -

admissability of hearsay evidence -

consultative case stated - welfare of the

child - Court's decision to admit

hearsay evidence of child - Children's

Act 1908, ss. 21, 24, 28, 58 -

Guardianship of Infants Act 1964, ss. 3,

11 - Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act

1961, s. 52 - Criminal Evidence Act

1992 - Child Care Act 1991, parts III, IV,

V, VI - Interpretation Act 1923, s. 1 3

FOOD AND SAFETY

European Communities (Indication of

prices of Foodstuffs and Non-Food

Products) (Amendment) Regulations

1996 (SI No. 124 of 1996)

These

regulations

retrospectively

extend, by a further two vears, an

existing deadline of 6 |une 1995. It had

originally been intended that the

requirement to indicate the unit-price

for all pre-packaged goods would come

into effect on that date. This

requirement will now come into effect

on 6 |une 1997.

HEALTH AND SAFETY

Health (Amendment) Bill 1995

This Bill has been amended in the

Select Committee on Social Affairs. (Cf.

(1996) 14 ILT 26.)

Health

(Community

Pharmacy

Contractor Agreement)

Regulations

1996 (SI No. 152 of 1996)

These Regulations specifv the criteria

and procedures under which the chief

executive officer of the relevant health

hoard shall determine the issue of new

community

pharmacy

contractor

agreements for the provision ot

community pharmacy services under

the Health Act 1970.

European Communities (Cosmetic

Products)(Amendment)

Regulations

1996 (SI No. 164 of 1996)

These Regulations update the principal

Regulations

(the

European

Communities (Cosmetic

Products)

Regulations 1990) by giving effect to

the Seventeenth

and

Eighteenth

Commission Directives on cosmetics

(94/32/EC and 95/34/EC respectively).

The effect of the Regulations is to

further safeguard public health in

regard to the substances which may be

contained in cosmetic products having

regard to the progress of scientific

knowledge in cosmetology. The use of

certain

additional

substances

permitted while the use of certain other

substances is either prohibited or

subjected to certain restrictions and

conditions. The Regulations also give

effect to the Sixth Commission

Directive relating to the methods of

analysis necessary for the oft'ical

checking of the composition of

cosmetic products.

HOUSING

Housing Regulations 1980 (Amend-

ment) Regulations 1996 (SI No. 148 of

1996)

These Regulations relate to house

purchase and improvement loans made

by local authorities. They provide tor:

increases in the amounts of local

authoritv

house

purchase

and

improvement loans; the assessment of

income for the purposes of eligibility by

a formula which takes into account

second incomes; and certain exemp-

tions from the income eligibility limit.

Thev further provide: that house

purchase loans mav he made to certain

persons who had previously owned a

house (for example, in the case of

marital breakdown); for the extension of

loan repavment periods and the

conversion of arrears into capital debt

in cases of hardship; and a facility for

the consolidation of house purchase and

improvement loans into a single loan.

The Regulations came into operation on

1 May 1996.

LOTTERIES

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment)

Bill 1996

This

private member's

Bill, as

introduced by Mr Michael I. Woods,

TD, aims to remove restrictions on the

size of prize funds in lotteries run by

charities and to ease the requirements

relating to the weekly returns such

lotteries are required to make to tl.

Garda Síochána.

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Local Government (Planning and

Development) Bill 1996

This private member's

Bill, as

introduced by Ms Ma inn Quill, TD,

aims to integrate the increased

protection for elements of archi-tectural

heritage within the existing structures of

the planning code.

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Keating & Co. Limited v. The Jervis

Shopping Centre Limited and Anor

(Keane J) 1 March 1996

Notice of motion - interlocutory

injunction - principles to he applied -

building development - nuisance -

trespass - development necessary to

comply with agreement between the

parties - whether plaintiff established a

serious question to be tried - whether or

not damages are an adequate remedy -

whether plaintiff entitled to an

interlocutory injunction

REAL PROPERTY

Henry A. Crosbie v. Custom House

Dock Development Authority, Minister

for the Environment, Ireland and the

Attorney General

(Costello J)

February 1996

Administrative - compulsory purchase

order - abandonment of purpose for

which land was acquired order sought

for reconveyance of land - functions of

the Minister - purposes for which land

acquired not abandoned - section not

unconstitutional - Urban Renewal Act

1986, ss. 8, 9, 12 - Urban Renewal Act

1987, s. 5

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

European Communities (Introduction

and Movement of Certain Harmful

Organisms, Plants, Plant Products and

Other Objects for Trial or Scientific

Purposes and/or for work on Varietal

Selections) Regulations 1996 (SI No.

122 of 1996)

These Regulations implement the

provisions of Commission Directive

95/44/EC

which

establishes

the

conditions under which certain harmful

organisms, plants, plant products and

other objects listed in the Annexes to

Council Directive 77/93/EEC may he

introduced or moved into the State for