Labour Affairs and Labour Law (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017.

JurisdictionIreland
CitationIR SI 361/2017
Year2017

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 1st August, 2017.

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 Labour Affairs and Labour Law (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 1 September 2017.

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 Social Protection.

(2) References to the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation contained in any Act or any instrument made under such Act and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Social Protection.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation—

(a) by or under the Acts specified in Part 1 of the Schedule and the provisions of the Acts specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, and

(b) under the Regulations specified in Part 3 of the Schedule,

are transferred to the Minister for Social Protection.

(2) References to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act 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 Social Protection.

4. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Social Protection, the name of the Minister for Social Protection 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 Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation or added in the proceedings, as may be appropriate, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution or addition.

5. Anything commenced before the commencement of this Order by or under the authority of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation may, in so far as it relates to functions transferred by this...

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