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Records relating to members serving outside the State. 
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57.— (1)  The Minister may, by regulations made with the consent of the Minister for Health and Children, provide for the keeping of a record of any of the following events occurring outside the State while a member of the Garda Síochána is on international service or is on secondment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland: 
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(a) the member’s death; 
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(b) the death, in such circumstances as may be specified in the regulations, of the member’s spouse or of such other relatives as may be specified in the regulations; 
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(c) the birth, in such circumstances as may be specified in the regulations, of a child of the member. 
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(2) Records kept pursuant to regulations made under this section must be— 
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(a) authenticated in such manner and by such person as may be specified for the purpose in those regulations, and 
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(b) transmitted to an tArd-Chláraitheoir in such manner as may be specified in the regulations. 
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(3) Every regulation under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after it is made. 
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(4) Either House of the Oireachtas may, by a resolution passed within 21 sitting days after the day on which a regulation is laid before it under subsection (3), annul the regulation. 
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