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Powers and functions of the Board.
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4.—(1) It shall be the duty of the Board to carry on, control and manage the rural industries, to exercise the functions in relation thereto which immediately before the establishment day were vested in the Minister and, with the consent of the Minister given after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, to provide, carry on, control and manage in the Gaeltacht such other industries and productive schemes of employment as it may think fit.
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(2) It shall be the duty of the Board to encourage the preservation and extension of the use of Irish as a vernacular language in the Gaeltacht.
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(3) The Board shall have all such powers are as necessary for the purposes specified in subsections (1) and (2) of this section.
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(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsections and in addition to the powers conferred on the Board by any other provision of this Act, the Board shall have power—
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(a) to expand and develop in the Gaeltacht the rural industries and any industry or productive scheme of employment provided by it under this section,
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(b) to expand and develop in their existing locations the rural industries located outside the Gaeltacht,
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(c) with the consent of the Minister, to discontinue, either generally or in a particular place or district, the carrying on of any industry, being one of the rural industries, or any industry or productive scheme of employment provided by it under this section or any activity carried on by it in relation to or as part of the rural industries or any industry or productive scheme of employment so provided by it, and
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(d) to acquire, receive on transfer, hold, sell, mortgage, lease let, or otherwise dispose of land, buildings, markets, premises or plant and to erect, alter or maintain buildings, markets, premises or plant necessary for the discharge or exercise of its duties or powers under this Act.
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