Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 91/1987
• Year: 1987

S.I. No. 91 of 1987.

COMMUNICATIONS (TRANSFER OF DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS) ORDER, 1987.

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 Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 31st day of March, 1987. 2. In this Order "functions" includes power and duties. 3. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by Article 4 of this Order are hereby transferred to the Department of the Marine.

(2) References to the Department of Communications contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) of this Article shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of the Marine. 4. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Communications—

(a) by or under the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1983 (No. 40 of 1983) which relate to functions under any of the statutes and orders mentioned in Parts I and II of the Schedule to this Order, or

(b) by or under any of the statutes mentioned in Part III of the Schedule to this Order, or

(c) by or under any of the Statutes mentioned in the third column of Part IV of the Schedule to this Order at any reference number of any statute mentioned in the second column of that Part of that Schedule at that reference number

are hereby transferred to the Minister for the Marine.

(2) References to the Minister for Communications contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to any functions transferred by this Article shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for the Marine. 5. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Communications is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for the Marine, the name of the Minister for the Marine, shall, in so far as the proceedings relate to any function transferred by this Order, be substituted in the proceedings for that of the Minister for the Communications or added in the proceedings, as may be appropriate, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution. 6. Anything commenced before the commencement of this Order by or under the authority of the Minister for Communications may, so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for the Marine be carried on or completed on or after such commencement by the Minister for the Marine. 7. Every document (including any certificate or licence) granted or made in the exercise of a function transferred by this Order shall, if and in so far as it were operative immediately before the commencement of this Order, have effect on or after such commencement as if it had been granted or made by the Minister for the Marine. 8. References to the Minister for Communications contained in the memorandum and articles of association of any company and relating to any function transferred by this Order shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for the Marine. 9. (1) All property, rights and liabilities held, enjoyed or incurred before the commencement of this Order by the Minister for Communications in connection with the functions transferred by this Order shall be and are hereby transferred to the Minister for the Marine and, accordingly, without any further conveyance, transfer or assignment—

(a) the said property, real and personal, shall, on such commencement, vest in the Minister for the Marine,

(b) the said rights shall, as on and from such commencement, be enjoyed by the Minister for the...