Legislation lookup

Find and quote Irish legislation accurately.

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Calling the tools

Steps name each operation as source/operation (e.g. ppr/ppr_price_stats), using the typed tool name as the operation. On the default surface, run it with ireland_call, for example:

{ "source": "legislation", "operation": "legislation_list_acts", "args": { "year": 2018, "query": "data protection" } }

If an argument shape is unclear, call ireland_describe with { "source", "operation" } first; it returns the schema and an example. search, fetch and nearby are top-level tools. If the server was added with ?toolsets=<ids> or ?toolsets=all, the typed tool (e.g. legislation_list_acts) can be called directly with the same args.

Steps

1. Find the Act. Call legislation/legislation_list_acts with { "year": 2004, "query": "residential tenancies", "limit": 10 }. Pick by title and year; if several fit, list them and ask.
2. Get the Act. Call legislation/legislation_get_act with the Act year and number from step 1, e.g. { "year": 2018, "number": 7 } (Data Protection Act 2018). Show the section list.
3. Get a section. Call legislation/legislation_get_section with year, number and section (a string such as "2" or "19A") and quote it verbatim.
4. Check amendments and commencement. Call legislation/legislation_get_act_effects with { "year": 2018, "number": 7, "section": "2" }. Report when the section commenced and every listed amendment, repeal or restriction, with updated_to. The quoted text is as enacted; if effects exist, say the current wording may differ and name the affecting provisions.
5. Statutory Instruments. Call legislation/legislation_list_sis with { "year": 2024, "query": "sick leave" }, then legislation/legislation_get_si with { "year": 2024, "number": 10 }. Use based_on to name the parent Act's power and transposes for EU law it implements. The explanatory note is not part of the SI.
6. Constitution. Call legislation/legislation_get_constitution_article with { "article": "40", "subsection": "3" } (lang: "ga" for Irish). Cite each paragraph by its ref, e.g. Article 40.3.3°, and link its url. In a conflict the Irish text prevails (Article 25.5.4°).
7. Bill history. Call oireachtas/oireachtas_get_bill with the Act, e.g. { "act_year": 2018, "act_no": 7 }, to list its bill's stages, sponsors and versions; or with { "bill_year": 2018, "bill_no": 10 } for a bill, which returns the enacted Act's eli when it passed. Use oireachtas/oireachtas_search_bills to find a bill by title.
8. EU law. For an SI's transposes ELI or a CELEX number, call eu-law/eu_law_lookup with { "eli": "http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2014/536/oj" } or { "celex": "32016R0679" } for the title, type, dates and in-force flag. Only the Official Journal is authentic; cite the EUR-Lex link for reading.

Output format

### <Short title> (No. <n> of <year>), section <s>
> <verbatim text>
Status: as enacted. Directory (updated to <updated_to>): <commencement and amendments, or "no effects listed">.
Sources
- Contains Oireachtas information licensed under the Oireachtas (Open Data) PSI Licence; Irish Statute Book: <url>
Not legal advice.

Rules

• Follow ../_shared/citations.md.
• Quote, do not paraphrase, when the wording matters. Mark any summary as a summary.
• No legal advice. Do not tell the user what they should do or how a court would decide. Suggest a solicitor, Citizens Information or the relevant regulator.
• Flag that as-enacted or as-made text may have been amended since; quote legislation_get_act_effects evidence.
• Do not present Law Reform Commission Revised Acts text as served by this tool; it is not.