(1) This Act primarily applies to every statutory instrument which- -

(a) is made on or after the 1st day of January, 1948, and

(b) is made by any of the following authorities, namely: -

(i) the President,

(ii) the Government,

(iii) any member of the Government,

(iv) any Parliamentary Secretary,

(v) any person or body, whether corporate or unincorporate, exercising throughout the State any function of government, or discharging throughout the State any public duties in relation to public administration,

(vi) any authority having for the time being power to make rules of court, and

(c) is either -

(i) required by statute to be laid before both or either of the Houses of the Oireachtas, or

(ii) is of such a character as affects the public generally or any particular class or classes of the public, and

(d) is not a statutory instrument which is required by a statute to be published in the Iris Oifigiúil.

(2)