The Genealogy and Heraldry Bill 2006 was a
private member's bill
A private member's bill is a bill (proposed law) introduced into a legislature by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive branch. The designation "private member's bill" is used in most Westminster system jurisdictions, in whi ...
introduced in
Seanad Éireann by
Brendan Ryan to reform the statutory basis for the office of
Chief Herald of Ireland.
History
The bill was drafted by Michael Merrigan, co-founder of the
Genealogical Society of Ireland
The Genealogical Society of Ireland ( ga, Cumann Geinealais na hÉireann) is a voluntary non-governmental organisation promoting the study of genealogy, heraldry, vexillology and social history in Ireland and amongst the Irish diaspora as open a ...
(GSI).
The bill has its
second reading
A reading of a bill is a stage of debate on the bill held by a general body of a legislature.
In the Westminster system, developed in the United Kingdom, there are generally three readings of a bill as it passes through the stages of becoming, ...
in December 2006, but lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil and Seanad for the
2007 election.
The status of the herald's office had previously been the topic of an
adjournment debate in 1995, and was amended by the National Cultural Institutions Act, 1997, legislation which the GSI regards as flawed.
References
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Proposed laws of Ireland
Irish genealogy
Heraldry and law
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