Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011.

• Published date: 27 September 2011
• Statutory Instrument No.: 480/2011

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 27th September, 2011.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 6 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 (No. 36 of 1939), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 20 September 2011.

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or any instrument made thereunder and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under—

(a) the provisions of the enactments specified in the Schedule, and

(b) Article 23(1) and (3) of the Drug Treatment Centre Board (Establishment) Order 1988 ( S.I. No. 76 of 1988 ),

are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

4. References to the Minister for Finance contained in any Act or instrument made under an Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

5. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Finance is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order, the name of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform shall be substituted for the name of the Minister for Finance in those proceedings and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

6. Anything commenced but not completed before the commencement of this Order by or under the authority of the Minister for Finance may, in so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Order, be carried on or completed by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

7. Every document (including any certificate or licence) granted or made in the performance of a function transferred by this Order shall, if and in so far as it was operative immediately before the commencement of this Order, have effect from such commencement as if it had been granted or made by the Minister for Public Expenditure...