BUNREACHT NA hÉIREANN

the Transitory Provisions (Articles 51-63) are omitted as required by their terms; the Irish text has been altered so as to make it conform to modern standardized Irish; the twentieth amendment, enacted subsequent to enrolment, is incorporated; the new Articles 2 and 3 and the new section 8 in Article 29 are inserted pursuant to the provisions of the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1998; the twenty-first, twenty-third and twenty-sixth amendments, enacted subsequent to enrolment have now been incorporated. Amendments effected since the Constitution was enacted in 1937 up to the time of printing of this edition (November 2002) are listed below.

Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1992
[Allowed the State to ratify the Treaty on European Union (Maastricht)
and to become a member of that union.]

16 July, 1992

There is no Twelfth Amendment. On 25 November 1992, three proposals were put to the people, the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The people rejected the Twelfth (which dealt with the right to life of the unborn) and approved the Thirteenth and Fourteenth (below).

Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1992
[Provided that Article 40.3.3° (the right to life of the unborn) would not limit freedom to travel between Ireland and another state]

23 December, 1992

Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1992
[ Provided that Article 40.3.3° ( the right to life of the unborn) would not limit freedom to obtain or make available information relating to services lawfully available in another state.]

23 December, 1992

Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1995
[ Provided for the dissolution of marriage in certain specified circumstances.]

17 June 1996

Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1996
[Provided for the refusal to bail by a court to a person charged with a serious offence where it is reasonably considered necessary to prevent the commission of a serious offence by that person.]

12 December, 1996

Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1997
[Provided that the confidentiality of discussions at meetings of the Government would be respected save only where the High Court, in certain specified circumstances, determined that disclosure should be made]

14 November, 1997

Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1998
[Allowed the State to ratify the Treaty of Amsterdam.]

3 June, 1998

Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1998
[Allowed the State to consent to be bound by the British-Irish Agreement done at Belfast on 10 April 1998 and provided that certain further amendments to the Constitution, notably to Articles 2 and 3, would come into effect when that agreement entered into force.]

3 June, 1998

Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1999
[Provided constitutional recognition of the role of local government and that local elections are held at least every five years.]

23 June, 1999

Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution Act, 2001 [Prohibition of death penalty and removal of references to death penalty]

27 March, 2002

There is no Twenty–second Amendment of the Constitution. The Twenty–second Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2001 [relating to the removal of a judge from office and providing for a body to be established by law to investigate or cause to be investigated conduct constituting misbehaviour by a judge or affected by incapacity of a judge] was not passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas.

Twenty–third Amendment of the Constitution Act, 2001 [Allowing the State to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court].

27 March, 2002

There is no Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution . On 7 June, 2001, three proposals were put to the people, the Twenty-first, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Amendments. The people rejected the Twenty-fourth (which dealt with the Treaty of Nice) and approved the Twenty-first and Twenty-third (above).

There is no Twenty-fifth Amendment. On 6 March, 2002, a proposal for the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution was put to the people and was rejected [Protection of Pregnancy in Human Life].

7 November, 2002

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act, 2004.[Irish citizenship of children of non-national parents]

24 June, 2004