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'''The Irish Statute Book''', also known as the '''electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB)''', is a database produced by the Office of the [[Attorney General of Ireland]]. It contains copies of [[Acts of the Oireachtas]] and [[statutory instrument]]s.<ref>"[http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/home.html The Irish Statute Book (eISB)]". ''Irishstatutebook.ie''. Accessed on 21 March 2014.</ref><ref name=AGeISB>"[http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/ago/eisb.html electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB)]". Office of the Attorney General. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120911022544/http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/ago/eisb.html Archived] from the original by [[Internet Archive]].</ref><ref>[http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/footer/sitemap.html Site Map]. Office of the Attorney General.</ref> It also contains a Legislation Directory which includes chronological tables of pre-1922 legislation.<ref>"[http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/legislation_directory.html Legislation Directory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714203206/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/legislation_directory.html |date=2014-07-14 }}"</ref> It is published on a website (irishstatutebook.ie) and was formerly published on [[CD-ROM]].<ref name=AGeISB /><ref name=ILT>"Errors in Statute Book CD-ROM" (2001) 19 [[Irish Law Times]] 190</ref>

In 2001, the ''Irish Law Times'' said that, whilst the Attorney General's staff deserved to be congratulated for the Irish Statute Book, the CD-ROM version contained a "significant number of errors".<ref name=ILT />

==See also==
*[[Law of the Republic of Ireland]]

==References==
*[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/info/info_ie/index_en.htm Irish Statute Book]. [[N-Lex]].
*[[OECD]] (2010). ''Better Regulation in Europe: Ireland 2010''. OECD Publishing. {{ISBN|978-92-64-09508-3}}. Page 93. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FbSbYFXezMoC&pg=PA93 Digitized copy] from [[Google Books]]. {{doi|10.1787/9789264095090-en}}.
*Ruth O'Flaherty. "The Provision of Library and Research Services in the Office of the Attorney General – a Law Office of the State". [[Legal Information Management]]. Cambridge University Press. Volume 11. Issue 3. September 2011. pp 195 – 197. {{doi|10.1017/S1472669611000624}}.
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/}}

[[Category:Law of the Republic of Ireland]]