Property Registration Authority (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 2017
• Citation: IR SI 574/2017

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 15th December, 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 Property Registration Authority (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on 1 January 2018.

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 Housing, Planning and Local Government.

(2) References to the Department of Justice and Equality 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 Housing, Planning and Local Government.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Justice and Equality by or under–

(a) the Registration of Titles Act 1964 (No. 16 of 1964),

(b) the Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) (No. 2) Act 1978 (No. 16 of 1978), and

(c) the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006 (No. 12 of 2006),

are transferred to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government.

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

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