Valuation Office (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2015.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 638/2015
• Year: 2015

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 11th December, 2015.

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 Valuation Office (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2015.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 1 January 2016.

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 Justice and Equality.

(2) References to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform 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 Justice and Equality.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform—

(a) subject to paragraph (2), by or under Parts 1 to 12 and 13 of the Valuation Act 2001 (No. 13 of 2001), and

(b) under section 14 of the Valuation (Amendment) Act 2015 (No. 10 of 2015),

are transferred to the Minister for Justice and Equality.

(2) This Article does not apply to–

(a) section 4(5),

(b) section 4(6) (in so far as it relates to directions in accordance with which fees charged pursuant to regulations under section 4(2) shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer),

(c) section 6(2),

(d) section 9(6),

(e) section 10(1),

(f) section 56(2), and

(g) paragraph 1(7) of Schedule 2,

of the Valuation Act 2001 .

(3) References to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform 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 Justice and Equality.

4. Where immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Justice and Equality, the name of the Minister for Justice and Equality shall, in so far as the proceedings relate to any function transferred by this Order, be substituted in the proceedings for that of...