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Iris Oifigiúil is the official means used by the Government for announcing appointments to public offices and publishing proclamations; statutory instruments; appointment of receivers to companies; etc.

Prima Facie evidence of any proclamation, order, rule, regulation, bye-law, or other official document may be given in any legal proceedings by production of a copy of the Iris purported to contain such matter (Documentary Evidence Act 1925 ss.3-4). Notices in relation to many matters concerning companies must be published in the Iris within six weeks of the delivery to the Registrar of Companies. (S I No 163 of 1973; Companies Amendment Act 1983 s.55).

Iris Oifigiúil replaced the Dublin Gazzette in 1922 (Adaption of Enactments Act 1922 s.3).

Iris Oifigiúil is the continuation of a publication entitled the Dublin Gazette. The last issue of the Dublin Gazette was published on the 27th January, 1922.

The title of the Dublin Gazette was altered in 1922 by Authority of the Provisional Government to "Iris Oifigiúil" which then became the medium for the publication of governmental, statutory and other notices formerly published in the Dublin Gazette. The first issue of Iris Oifigiúil appeared on the 31st January, 1922.