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Clarification of certain matters. 
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22.—For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that— 
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(a) a regulation under the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1996, and 
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(b) anything done in accordance with that regulation, 
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shall not be invalid by reason only that, at the time that regulation was made, the Act under which it was made did not expressly authorise such a regulation to have retrospective effect. 
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