Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 2011

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 10/2011
• Year: 2011

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Number 10 of 2011

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MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2011

REVISED

Updated to 1 January 2023

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This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Act 2022 (52/2022), enacted 21 December 2022, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Planning And Development And Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 1 of 2023), made 9 January 2023, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

Disclaimer: While every care has been taken in the preparation of this Revised Act, the Law Reform Commission can assume no responsibility for and give no guarantees, undertakings or warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness or up to date nature of the information provided and does not accept any liability whatsoever arising from any errors or omissions. Please notify any errors, omissions and comments by email to

revisedacts@lawreform.ie.

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Number 10 of 2011

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MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2011

REVISED

Updated to 1 January 2023

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Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2020: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be read together as one (Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (10/2020), s. 3(2)). The Acts in the group are:

• Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (16/1924)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1928 (6/1928)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 (36/1939)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1946 (38/1946)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1956 (21/1956)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1966 (18/1966)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1973 (14/1973)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1977 (27/1977)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1977 (28/1977)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1980 (2/1980)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1983 (40/1983)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1995 (1/1995)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Ministers of State) Act 2007 (33/2007)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (10/2011)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2013 (29/2013), other than s. 3

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2017 (18/2017)

• Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (10/2020), s. 1

Acts previously included in the group but now repealed are:

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1959 (17/1959)

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Finance Act 2022 (44/2022)

• Water Services (Amendment) Act 2022 (39/2022)

• Finance Act 2021 (45/2021)

• Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Act 2021 (31/2021)

• Public Service Pay Act 2021 (15/2021)

• Greyhound Racing Act 2019 (15/2019)

• Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019 (5/2019)

• Data Protection Act 2018 (7/2018)

• Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017 (22/2017)

• Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 (39/2015)

• State Airports (Shannon Group) Act 2014 (27/2014)

• National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 (23/2014)

• ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Act 2014 (5/2014)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2013 (29/2013)

• Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (11/2013)

• Transport (Córas Iompair Éireann and Subsidiary Companies Borrowings) Act 2012 (49/2012)

All Acts up to and including Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Act 2022 (52/2022), enacted 21 December 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 274 of 2022)

• Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 150 of 2020)

• Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 394 of 2018)

• Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 460 of 2017)

• Superannuation (Designation Of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 188 of 2015)

• Superannuation (Designation Of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 89 of 2014)

• Public Expenditure and Reform (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. No. 574 of 2013)

• Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 498 of 2013)

• Oireachtas (Allowances and Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 149 of 2013)

• Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 388 of 2012)

• Local Government (Superannuation) (Consolidation) (Amendment) Scheme 2012 (S.I. No. 291 of 2012)

• Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 160 of 2012)

• Remuneration of the Comptroller and Auditor General Order 2012 (S.I. No. 49 of 2012)

• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (Appointed Day) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 401 of 2011)

All statutory instruments up to and including Planning And Development And Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 1 of 2023), made 9 January 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

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Number 10 of 2011

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MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2011

REVISED

Updated to 1 January 2023

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Acts Referred to

Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998	1998, No. 24
Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003	2003, No. 1
Capital Gains Tax Acts
Charities Act 2009	2009, No. 6
Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965	1965, No. 26
Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004	2004, No. 31
Companies Act 1963	1963, No. 33
Companies Acts
Customs Acts
Defence Act 1954	1954, No. 18
District of Fergus Drainage Act 1943	1943, No. 13
Documentary Evidence Act 1925	1925, No. 24
Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997	1997, No. 7
Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992	1992, No. 15
Electoral Act 1992	1992, No. 23
Electoral Act 1997	1997, No. 25
Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001	2001, No. 38
Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004	2004, No. 15
Electricity (Supply) Act 1927	1927, No. 27
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 1930	1930, No. 19
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 1931	1931, No. 32
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1934	1934, No. 38
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 1945	1945, No. 12
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 1954	1954, No. 17
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 1958	1958, No. 35
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 1962	1962, No. 24
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 1971	1971, No. 18
Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act 2001	2001, No. 9
Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006	2006, No. 40
European Parliament Elections Act 1997	1997, No. 2
Finance Act 1988	1988, No. 12
Finance Act 1992	1992, No. 9
Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1945	1945, No. 35
Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1999	1999, No. 35
Forestry Act 1988	1988, No. 26
Freedom of Information Act 1997	1997, No. 13
Gas Act 1976	1976, No. 30
Harbours Act 1946	1946, No. 9
Harbours Act 1996	1996, No. 11
Harbours (Amendment) Act 2000	2000, No. 21
Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006	2006, No. 17
Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Act 1997	1997, No. 34
Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal (Amendment) Act 2006	2006, No. 22
Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001	2001, No. 20
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