The Irish Statute Book, also known as the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB), is a database produced by the Office of the
Attorney General of Ireland
The attorney general of Ireland () is a constitutional officer who is the legal adviser to the Government and is therefore the chief law officer of the State. The attorney general is not a member of the Government but does participate in cabine ...
. It contains copies of
Acts of the Oireachtas
This is a list of acts of the Oireachtas for the years 1922 to present. All Acts listed are public Acts unless otherwise stated.
Prior to 2003, the short title of legislation included a comma before the year, i.e., ''Appropriation Act, 1922''. ...
and
statutory instruments.
[electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB)]
. Office of the Attorney General
from the original by Internet Archive
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. It also contains a Legislation Directory which includes chronological tables of pre-1922 legislation.
Legislation Directory
" It is published on a website (irishstatutebook.ie) and was formerly published on CD-ROM
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.["Errors in Statute Book CD-ROM" (2001) 19 ]Irish Law Times
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190
In 2001, the ''Irish Law Times'' said that, whilst the Attorney General's staff deserved to be congratulated for the Irish Statute Book, the CD-ROM version contained a "significant number of errors".
See also
*Law of the Republic of Ireland
The law of Ireland consists of constitutional, statutory, and common law. The highest law in the State is the Constitution of Ireland, from which all other law derives its authority. The Republic has a common-law legal system with a written co ...
References
Irish Statute Book
N-Lex
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.
*OECD
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(2010). ''Better Regulation in Europe: Ireland 2010''. OECD Publishing. . Page 93
Digitized copy
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. .
*Ruth O'Flaherty. "The Provision of Library and Research Services in the Office of the Attorney General – a Law Office of the State". Legal Information Management
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. Cambridge University Press. Volume 11. Issue 3. September 2011. pp 195 – 197. .
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/
Law of the Republic of Ireland