asked the Taoiseach if the Government will issue an instruction to all Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries making orders or regulations, or granting licences under any Act, statutory regulation or order that the name, section and subsection of the empowering Act or Acts shall be mentioned in such order, regulation or licence with a view to ensuring that citizens will be made readily aware of the authority under which it has been made or issued; and that, if licences are being issued by virtue of power granted by a statutory regulation or order, the distinguishing number of such statutory regulation or order shall be indicated in the licence.
Ceisteanna—Questions Oral Answers. - Orders, Regulations and Licences.
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Successive Select Committees of Seanad Éireann issued a number of reports on Statutory Instruments in which they referred, inter alia, to shortcomings observed in the citations of authority in such instruments. From paragraph 10 and Appendix XI of the latest printed report, issued in 1961 (Presentation number 6167), I gather that it would not be necessary to issue the instruction suggested by the Deputy as regards statutory instruments.
As licences are, generally speaking, not of a restrictive nature, they do not appear to call for full citation of authority in every instance, and the instruction suggested by the Deputy does not therefore seem to be necessary.