Act of 2015 means the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015;
Act of 2014 means the Companies Act 2014;
Act of 2006 means the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006;
Act of 2007 means the Water Services Act 2007;
Act of 2010 means the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010;
Act of 2005 means theSocial Welfare Consolidation Act 2005;
Act of 2004 means the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004;
Act of 2002 means the Communications Regulation Act 2002 (No. 20 of 2002);
Act of 2003 means the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003;
Act of 2000 means the Planning and Development Act 2000;
Act of 2001 means the Local Government Act 2001;
Guidance means any guidance issued or updated by the UK Government from time to time in relation to the Regulations;
Act of 1999 means the Electricity Regulation Act 1999;
Act of 1992 means the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (No. 7 of 1992);
Act of 1994 means the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1994 [No.27 of 1994];
Act of 1997 means the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997;
Act of 1995 means the Consumer Credit Act 1995;
Act of 1996 means the Trade Marks Act 1996 (No. 6 of 1996);
Act of 1998 means the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (No. 29 of 1998);
the 2001 Regulations means the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2001[63];
CRD IV Regulation means Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 26, 2013, as the same may be amended or replaced from time to time.
the 2012 Regulations means the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012;
EESA means the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as implemented by guidance or regulation issued by the Department of the Treasury and as published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2008.
Commission Guidance means (i) any publicly available written guidance or rule of general applicability of the Securities and Exchange Commission staff or (ii) written comments, requirements or requests of the Securities and Exchange Commission staff to the Company in connection with the review of a Registration Statement.
Basel III Regulation means, with respect to any Affected Person, any rule, regulation or guideline applicable to such Affected Person and arising directly or indirectly from (a) any of the following documents prepared by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank of International Settlements: (i) Basel III: International Framework for Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards and Monitoring (December 2010), (ii) Basel III: A Global Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and Banking Systems (June 2011), (iii) Basel III: The Liquidity Coverage Ratio and Liquidity Risk Monitoring Tools (January 2013), or (iv) any document supplementing, clarifying or otherwise relating to any of the foregoing, or (b) any accord, treaty, statute, law, rule, regulation, guideline or pronouncement (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental authority implementing, furthering or complementing any of the principles set forth in the foregoing documents of strengthening capital and liquidity, in each case as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, “Basel III Regulation” shall include Part 6 of the European Union regulation on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms (the “CRR”) and any law, regulation, standard, guideline, directive or other publication supplementing or otherwise modifying the CRR.
PPPFA Regulations means the Preferential Procurement Regulations, 2017 published in terms of the PPPFA.