Constitution (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937

Adaptation of references to the President of the Executive Council and his Department.

3.—(1) From and after the coming into operation of the Constitution, the Department of the President of the Executive Council shall be styled and known as the Department of the Taoiseach and the Taoiseach shall be the Minister who is head of that Department.

(2) Every mention or reference in any statute or statutory instrument in force immediately prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution and continued in force thereafter by section 1 of Article 50 of the Constitution (whether such mention or reference is expressed in such statute or statutory instrument by virtue of original enactment or by virtue of subsequent amendment or modification or is implied therein by virtue of a general or a specific adaptation or interpretation) of or to the President of the Executive Council or of or to the Department of the President of the Executive Council shall,—

(a) in relation to anything done or to be done or an event occurring before the coming into operation of the Constitution, be construed and have effect (unless the context otherwise requires) in like manner as it was construed and had effect immediately prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution, and

(b) in relation to anything done or to be done or an event occurring after the coming into operation of the Constitution, be construed and have effect, unless the context otherwise requires, as a mention of or reference to (as the case may require) the Taoiseach or the Department of the Taoiseach.

(3) All moneys provided by the Oireachtas of Saorstát Eireann for the purposes of the Department of the President of the Executive Council during the financial year which began on the 1st day of April, 1937, shall be deemed to have been so provided also for the purposes of the Department of the Taoiseach during the said financial year and shall accordingly be applicable during the said financial year for the purposes of either the Department of the President of the Executive Council or the Department of the Taoiseach, as circumstances may require.