S.I. No. 52/2021 - European Communities (Reception Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in | ||
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 12th February, 2021. | ||
I, HELEN MCENTEE, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving further effect to Directive 2013/33/EU of 26 June 20131 , hereby make the following regulations: | ||
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Reception Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2021. | ||
(2) These Regulations and the Regulations of 2018 shall be construed together as one and may be cited together as the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 to 2021. | ||
2. In these Regulations, “Regulations of 2018” means the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 ( S.I. No. 230 of 2018 ). | ||
3. Regulation 11 of the Regulations of 2018 is amended - | ||
(a) in paragraph (3)(b), by the substitution of “5 months” for “8 months”, | ||
(b) in paragraph (4)(a), by the substitution of “6 months” for “9 months”, | ||
(c) in paragraph (5)(b)(i), by the substitution of “12 months” for “6 months”, | ||
(d) in paragraph (6), by the substitution of “6 months” for “9 months”, and | ||
(e) in paragraph (16), by the substitution of “paragraph (17)” for “paragraph (16)”. | ||
4. Schedule 3 of the Regulations of 2018 is amended in section 3 of Form LMA 3 by the substitution of “My application for International Protection is 5 months old or more (the permission will not become valid until 6 months)” for “My application for International Protection is 8 months old or more (the permission will not become valid until 9 months)”. | ||
5. Where, before the date on which these Regulations come into operation- | ||
(a) an application for labour market access permission under Regulation 11(3) of the Regulations of 2018, or | ||
(b) an application for renewal of a permission referred to in paragraph (a) under Regulation 11(7) of the Regulations of 2018, | ||
has been made to the Minister and has not been determined by the Minister, the amendments of the Regulations of 2018 effected by Regulation 3 shall apply to the application concerned. | ||
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GIVEN under my Official Seal, | ||
9 February, 2021. | ||
HELEN MCENTEE, | ||
Minister for Justice. | ||
EXPLANATORY NOTE | ||
(This is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) | ||
These Regulations amend the labour market access permission provisions of the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations ( S.I. No. 230 of 2018 ), to reduce the timeframe for labour market access from 9 to 6 months, and to extend the validity of a labour market permission from 6 to 12 months. | ||
