S.I. No. 129/1987:

FOOD STANDARDS (TRANSFER OF DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS) ORDER, 1987.

FOOD STANDARDS (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 Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1939 (No. 36 of 1939), hereby order as follows:

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

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the day of 5 May, 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 Agriculture and Food.

(2) References to the Department of Industry and Commerce 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 construed as references to the Department of Agriculture and Food.

4. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Industry and Commerce by or under any of the Regulations mentioned in the Schedule to this Order are hereby transferred to the Minister for Agriculture and Food.

(2) References to the Minister for Industry and Commerce 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 Agriculture and Food.

5. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Industry and Commerce is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Agriculture and Food, the name of the Minister for Agriculture and Food, 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 Industry and Commerce 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 Industry and Commerce may, so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Agriculture and Food, be carried on or completed on or after such commencement by the Minister for Agriculture and Food.

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 was operative immediately before the commencement of this Order, have effect on and after such commencement as if it had been granted or made by the Minister for Agriculture and Food.

8. References to the Minister for Industry and Commerce 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 Agriculture and Food.

9. (1) All property, rights and liabilities held, enjoyed or incurred before the commencement of this Order by the Minister for Industry and Commerce in connection with the functions transferred by this Order shall be and are hereby transferred to the Minister for Agriculture and Food 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 Agriculture and Food,

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

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

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

SCHEDULE.

Regulations functions under which are transferred to the Minister for Agriculture and Food.

Food Standards (Cocoa and Chocolate Products) (European communities) Regulations, 1975 ( S.I. No. 180 of 1975 );

Food Standards (Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars) (European Communities) Regulations, 1978 ( S.I. No. 173 of 1978 );

European Communities (Fruit Jams, Jellies and Marmalades and Chestnut Puree) Regulations, 1982 ( S.I. No. 250 of 1982 );

European Communities (Coffee Extracts and Chicory Extracts) regulations, 1982 ( S.I. No. 295 of 1982 );

Food Standards (Fruit Juices and Fruit Nectars) (European Communities) (Amendment) Regulations, 1984 ( S.I. No. 266 of 1984 );

European Communities (Natural Mineral Waters) Regulations, 1986 ( S.I. No. 11 of 1986 ).

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 5th day of May, 1987.

CHARLES J. HAUGHEY,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order transfers to the Minister for Agriculture and Food with effect from the operative date of this Order, functions in relation to food.