Community Development (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2018

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 2018
• Citation: IR SI 165/2018

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 18th May, 2018.

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 Community Development (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2018.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 1 June 2018.

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by Article 3 are transferred to the Department of Rural and Community Development.

(2) References to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government contained in any Act or any instrument made under such Act 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 Rural and Community Development.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government by or under—

(a) section 1 (4) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012 (No. 17 of 2012) in so far as it relates to the coming into operation of sections 10(e) and 11(i) of that Act,

(b) section 3 of the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971 (No. 6 of 1971) in so far as it relates to the establishment of a body having functions relating to the promotion of water safety, and

(c) section 5A of the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971 in so far as it relates to the transfer of assets and liabilities of the body specified in section 10 (e) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012 ,

are transferred to the Minister for Rural and Community Development.

(2) References to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Article shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Rural and Community Development.

4. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Rural and Community Development, the name of the Minister for Rural...