Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1983

The Department of Communications.

2.—(1) On the appointed day a Department of State to be styled and known as An Roinn Cumarsáide or (in the English language) the Department of Communications shall stand established.

(2) The member of the Government who is in charge of the Department of Communications shall be styled and known as an tAire Cumarsáide or (in the English language) the Minister for Communications.

(3) The Ministers and Secretaries Acts, 1924 to 1980, and the Documentary Evidence Act, 1925 , shall apply to the Department of Communications and the member of the Government who is in charge thereof as if that Department had been established by section 1 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 .