Sport ireland act 2015

• Enactment Date: 13 May 2015
• Act Number: 15

Number 15 of 2015
SPORT IRELAND ACT 2015
CONTENTS
PART 1
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title and commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Expenses of Minister
4. Orders and regulations
5. Repeals
PART 2
Sport Ireland
Chapter 1
Establishment and functions
6. Establishment day
7. Establishment of Sport Ireland
8. Functions of Sport Ireland
9. Additional functions
10. Consultants and advisers
11. Criteria, terms and conditions of assistance
12. Government policy and Minister’s directions
13. Advice and information
14. Advances by Minister to Sport Ireland
15. Strategy statement
16. Accounts and audits
17. Annual report and information to Minister
18. Service agreement
19. Public Private Partnership arrangements
20. Subsidiaries of Sport Ireland and other matters
21. Borrowing by Sport Ireland or subsidiaries
Chapter 2
Chief Executive
22. Chief executive
23. Accountability to Committees of Oireachtas
Chapter 3
Staff and superannuation
24. Staff of Sport Ireland
25. Superannuation of staff
Chapter 4
Property
26. Acquisition of land by Sport Ireland
27. Renewal of leases
28. Amendment of Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999
Chapter 5
The site
29. Development of site
PART 3
Dissolution of Irish Sports Council and National Sports Campus Development Authority
Chapter 1
Dissolution and transfer of functions
30. Dissolution of Council and Authority
31. References to Council or Authority in enactments
32. Transfer of land and other property
33. Transfer of rights and liabilities, and continuation of leases, licences and permissions granted by the Council or the Authority
34. Liability for loss occurring before establishment day
35. Provisions consequent upon the conferral of functions on, or transfer of assets and liabilities to, Sport Ireland
36. Final accounts and annual report of Council
37. Final accounts and annual report of Authority
Chapter 2
Transfer of staff and superannuation
38. Transfer of staff of Council and Authority
39. Superannuation
PART 4
Anti-Doping
40. Definitions for Part 4
41. National anti-doping organisation
42. Anti-doping and Irish Anti-Doping Rules
43. Data protection
44. Persons engaged in sport
45. Continuance of Irish Anti-Doping Rules
SCHEDULE 1
Sport Ireland
SCHEDULE 2
Provisions Relating to Compulsory Acquisition
Acts Referred to
Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c.57)
Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)
Companies Act 1963 (No. 33)
Companies Act 1990 (No. 33)
Companies Acts
Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 (No. 8)
Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003
European Parliament Elections Act 1997 (No. 2)
Irish Sports Council Act 1999 (No. 6)
Landlord and Tenant Acts 1967 to 2008
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict., c. 18)
Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)
Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts 1973 to 2005
National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 (No. 19)
Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 (No. 20)
Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006
Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001 (No. 45)
Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 (No. 37)
Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 (No. 28)
Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2012
Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 (No. 12)
Roads Act 1993 (No. 14)
Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 (No. 31)
State Authorities (Public Private Partnership Arrangements) Act 2002 (No. 1)
Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2007
Number 15 of 2015
SPORT IRELAND ACT 2015
An Act to provide for the administration and development of sport in the State; to provide for the establishment of a body to be known in the Irish language as Spórt Éireann or in the English language as Sport Ireland; to provide for the dissolution of the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority; to update the law in relation to doping in sport; and to provide for related matters.
[13 th May, 2015]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
PART 1 Preliminary and General
		Short title and commencement
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Sport Ireland Act 2015.
	(2) Part 4 shall come into operation on the establishment day.
		Interpretation
2. (1) In this Act—
	“acquisition order” has the meaning given by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 ;
	“Act of 1999” means Irish Sports Council Act 1999 ;
	“Act of 2002” means State Authorities (Public Private Partnership Arrangements) Act 2002 ;
	“Act of 2006” means National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006 ;
	“Act of 2012” means Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 ;
	“Authority” means National Sports Campus Development Authority;
	“chief executive” has the meaning given by section 22 ;
	“civil partner” means civil partner within the meaning of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ;
	“committee” means a committee established under paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 ;
	“company” means a company within the meaning of the Companies Act 1963 ;
	“competitive sport” means all forms of physical activity which, through organised participation, aim at—
	(a) expressing or improving physical fitness, and
	(b) obtaining improved results in competition at all levels;
	“Council” means Irish Sports Council;
	“doping in sport” has the meaning given by section 40 ;
	“establishment day” means the day appointed under section 6 ;
	“financial year” means a period of 12 months ending on 31 December in any year and, in the case of the first financial year of Sport Ireland, means the period commencing on the establishment day and ending on 31 December in the year in which the establishment day falls;
	“Minister” means Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport;
	“national anti-doping organisation” has the meaning given by section 40 ;
	“National Aquatic Centre” means the land commonly known as the National Aquatic Centre situated at Deanstown, in the county of Dublin;
	“National Framework of Qualifications” has the same meaning as it has in the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 ;
	“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister;
	“public authority” means—
	(a) a Minister of the Government,
	(b) a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act 2001 ,
	(c) an education and training board, or
	(d) a person established—
	(i) by or under any enactment (other than the Companies Acts),
	(ii) by any scheme administered by the Government, or
	(iii) under the Companies Acts, in pursuance of powers conferred by or under another enactment, and financed wholly or partly, whether directly or indirectly, by means of moneys provided, or loans made or guaranteed, by a Minister of the Government or by subscription for shares held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government,
	or
	(e) a company (within the meaning of the Companies Acts), a majority of the shares in which are held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government;
	“recreational sport” means all forms of physical activity which, through casual or regular participation, aim at—
	(a) expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being, and
	(b) forming social relationships;
	“sample” means a sample, or specimen, of biological material collected for the purposes of preventing doping in sport;
	“site” means—
	(a) the National Aquatic Centre,
	(b) the land which, immediately before the establishment day, was owned by the National Sports Campus Development Authority, and
	(c) any land acquired by Sport Ireland under section 26 ;
	“sport” includes competitive sport and recreational sport;
	“Sport Ireland” means the body established under section 7 (1);
	“sports campus” means a campus of facilities for sporting activities, whether indoor or outdoor, and facilities and services to support such activities, which includes the National Aquatic Centre and may include an indoor arena, playing pitches, sports training facilities, a stadium, a velodrome, administrative facilities for sport and medical and research facilities for sport;
	“strategy statement” means a statement required to be prepared and submitted under section 15 (1);
	“subsidiary” means a subsidiary (within the meaning of section 155 of the Companies Act 1963 ) of Sport Ireland.
	(2) In this Act, references to a member, or the members, of the staff of Sport Ireland shall include references to the chief executive, other than in—
	(a) section 24 , and
	(b) paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 .
		Expenses of Minister
3. The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.
		Orders and regulations
4. (1) The Minister may by regulations provide for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.
	(2) Without prejudice to any provision of this Act, regulations under this section may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.
	(3) Every order (other than an order made under section 6 or an acquisition order) or regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after it is made.
	(4) Either House of the Oireachtas may, by a resolution passed within 21 days after the day on which a...