S.I. No. 93/1987:

ARRAMARA TEORANTA (TRANSFER OF DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS) ORDER, 1987.

ARRAMARA TEORANTA (TRANSFER OF DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS) ORDER, 1987.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 6 (1) of the Minister and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1939 (No. 36 of 1939), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Arranmara Teoranta (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 31st day of March, 1987.

2. In this Order "functions" includes powers and duties.

3. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by Article 4 of this Order are hereby transferred to the Department of the Marine.

(2) References to the Department of the Gaeltacht contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) of this Article shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be costrued as references to the Department of the Marine.

4. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for the Gaeltacht by or under the Alginate Industries (Ireland) Ltd. (Acquisition of Shares) Acts, 1949 and 1954 are hereby transferred to the Minister for the Marine.

(2) References to the Minister for the Gaeltacht contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder 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 the Marine.

5. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings, are pending to which the Minister for the Gaeltacht is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for the Marine, the name of the Minister for the Marine, shall in so far as the proceedings relate to any functions transferred by this Order, be substituted in the proceedings for that of the Minister for the Gaeltacht or added in the proceedings, as may be appropriate, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

6. Anything commenced before the commencement of this Order by or under the authority of the Minister for the Gaeltacht, may, so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for the Marine, be carried on or completed on or after such commencement by the Minister for the Marine.

7. Every document (including any certificate or licence) granted or made in the exercise of a function transferred by this Order shall, if and in so far as it were operative immediately before the commencement of this Order, have effect on or after such commencement as if it had been granted or made by the Minister for the Marine.

8. References to the Minister for the Gaeltacht contained in the memorandum and articles of association of any company and relating to any function transferred by this order shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for the Marine.

9. (1) All property, rights and liabilities held, enjoyed or incurred before the commencement of this Order by the Minister for the Gaeltacht in connection with the functions transferred by this Order shall be and are hereby transferred to the Minister for the Marine and, accordingly, without any further conveyance, transfer or assignment--

(a) the said property, real and personal, shall, on such commencement, vest in the Minister for the Marine,

(b) the said rights shall, as on and from such commencement, be enjoyed by the Minister for the Marine,

(c) the said liabilities shall, as on and from such commencement, be the liabilities of the Minister for the Marine.

(2) All moneys, stocks, shares and securities transferred to the Minister for the Marine by this Article which, on such commencement, are standing in the name of the Minister for the Gaeltacht shall on the request of the Minister for the Marine be transferred into his name.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government this 31st day of March, 1987.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order transfers to the Minister for the Marine and to the Department of the Marine, respectively, with the effect from the operative date of this Order, Ministerial functions and Departmental administration in relation to Arramara Teoranta.