Unit: Commissioners of Irish Lights

Commissioners of Irish Lights

Tuesday 1st of January 1867 - still active

Under the Dublin Port Act (1867), responsibility for lighthouses, lightships, buoys and beacons around the coast of Ireland was vested in the Commissioners of Irish Lights. The British-Irish Act 1999 provided for merge with Foyle Fisheries Commission into the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission as the 'Lights Agency' however this did not take place (see http://www.northsouthministerialcouncil.org/index/north-south-implementation-bodies/foyle_carlingford-and-irish-lights.htm)

From date: 1867-01-01
To date:
Source: McGauran et al. 2005; http://www.cil.ie/; " An Act for Promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious, 1786"; "Merchant Shipping Act of 1854"; "Dublin Port Act (1867); No. 661/1935: Irish Lights Commissioners (Adaptation) Order, 1935; No. 37/1997: MERCHANT SHIPPING (COMMISSIONERS OF IRISH LIGHTS) ACT, 1997; British-Irish Agreement Act, 1999
Confidence: Very Confident
Legal forms: Statutory non-departmental body
- Source: Dublin Port Act (1867); No. 661/1935: IRISH LIGHTS COMMISSIONERS (ADAPTATION) ORDER, 1935; No. 37/1997: MERCHANT SHIPPING (COMMISSIONERS OF IRISH LIGHTS) ACT, 1997
- From date: 1867-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Functions: Regulatory (over public and private sectors)
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- From date: 1867-01-01
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Functions: Delivery
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- From date: 1867-01-01
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Policy domains: Communications
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- From date: 1867-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Policy domains: Transport
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- From date: 1867-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Transport (II)
- Source: S.I. No. 842/2005; S.I. No. 141/2011
- From date: 2006-01-01
- To date: 2011-04-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
- Source: S.I. No. 307/2002; S.I. No. 842/2005; McGauran et al. 2005
- From date: 2002-06-19
- To date: 2006-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Marine and Natural Resources
- Source: S.I. No. 301/1997; S.I. No. 307/2002
- From date: 1997-07-12
- To date: 2002-06-19
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of the Marine
- Source: S.I. No. 82/1987; S.I. No. 301/1997
- From date: 1987-03-19
- To date: 1997-07-12
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Source: S.I. No. 141/2011; S.I. No. 351/2020
- From date: 2011-04-02
- To date: 2020-09-17
- Confidence: Very Confident
Parents: Department of Transport (III)
- Source: S.I. No. 351/2020
- From date: 2020-09-17
- Confidence: Very Confident
Counties: Dublin
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- Confidence: Quite Confident
Cofog: transport
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: communication
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: economic affairs NEC
- Source: http://www.cil.ie/
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ombudsmans: yes
- Source: Disability Act 2005
- Description: Subject to Ombudsman under Disability Act 2005
- From date: 2005-01-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Financial information:
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/act/37/enacted/en/html
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1999/act/1/enacted/en/html
URL: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1935/si/661/

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
Dublin Port Act (1867)	1867-01-01		Commissioners of Irish Lights

Unit Information

Commissioners of Irish Lights