Heritage Fund (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2021

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 185/2021
• Year: 2021

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 6th April, 2021.

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 Heritage Fund (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2021.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 31 March 2021.

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of the functions transferred by Article 3 are transferred to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

(2) References to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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 Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage by or under the Heritage Fund Act 2001 (No. 44 of 2001) are transferred to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

(2) References to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage contained in any Act or instrument made under thereunder and relating to the functions transferred by this Article shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

4. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage is a party and the proceedings have reference to the functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the name of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media 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 Housing, Local Government and Heritage or added in the proceedings, as may be appropriate, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

5. Anything commenced before the commencement of this Order by or under the authority of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage may, in so far as...