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12 1997

LITTER POLLUTION ACT, 1997

PART VII

Related and Consequential Amendments and Commencement

Amendment and repeal of certain enactments.

35. —(1) The Local Government Act, 1994, is hereby amended—

(a) in section 37(3) by the deletion of paragraphs (b) and (c),

(b) by the substitution of “£1,500” for “£1,000”—

(i) in paragraph (i) of section 37(4),

(ii) in section 40(1), and

(iii) in paragraph (c) of section 40(4), and

(c) in section 40, by the substitution of the following for subsection (10):

“In this section 'authorised person' means a person authorised in writing by a local authority for the purpose of this section or, except in the case of subsection (5), a member of the Garda Síochána.”.

(2) Paragraph (a) of section 17(2) of the Control of Dogs Act 1986, is hereby repealed.

(3) The Litter Act, 1982, is hereby repealed.

Commencement.

36. —This Act shall come into operation on such day as may be fixed by order of the Minister, and different days may be so fixed for different provisions and for different purposes.