Roads and Road Vehicles (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 2007

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 815/2007
• Year: 2007

S.I. No. 815 of 2007

ROADS AND ROAD VEHICLES (TRANSFER OF DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS) ORDER 2007

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 14th December, 2007.

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 Roads and Road Vehicles (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2007.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 1 January 2008.

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 Transport.

(2) References to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government contained in any Act or 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 Transport.

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

(a) an Act set out in the first column of Part 1 of the Schedule, and

(b) a statutory instrument set out in the first column of Part 2 of the Schedule,

are transferred to the Minister for Transport to the extent specified in the second column of the Part concerned opposite the mention of Act or statutory instrument (as the case may be) so set out.

4. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Transport, the name of the Minister for Transport 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 the Environment, Heritage and Local Government 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 the Environment, Heritage and Local Government may, in so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Transport, be...