Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Act 2023

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Number 31 of 2023


DOMESTIC, SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AGENCY ACT 2023


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Definitions

3. Expenses

PART 2

Agency

4. Establishment day

5. Establishment of Agency

6. Functions of Agency

7. Establishment and membership of Board

8. Functions of Board

9. Terms of appointment and conditions of office of Board members

10. Casual vacancies

11. Ineligibility for appointment, disqualification from office, cessation of membership

12. Removal of member of Board

13. Removal of all members of Board

14. Meetings and procedures of Board

15. Establishment of committees of Board

16. Chief executive

17. Functions of chief executive

18. Delegation of functions of chief executive

19. Consultation by chief executive with Board

20. Acting chief executive

21. Staff of Agency

22. Transfer of certain employees of Child and Family Agency

23. Consultants and advisers

24. Transfer of functions to Agency

25. Transfer of rights and liabilities

26. Preservation of contracts

27. Pending legal proceedings

28. Records

29. Provisions consequent upon transfer of functions, rights and liabilities

PART 3

Governance and Accountability

30. Corporate plan

31. Publication and implementation of corporate plan

32. Annual business plan

33. Annual report

34. Accounts and audit

35. Accountability of chief executive to Public Accounts Committee

36. Accountability of chief executive to other Oireachtas committees

37. Prohibition on unauthorised disclosure of confidential information

38. Power of Minister to give direction and issue policy directives

39. Reports and information to Minister

PART 4

Service Providers

40. Arrangements with service providers

41. Provision of information by service provider to Agency

PART 5

Miscellaneous

42. Designation of public service body

43. Cooperation for performance of functions

44. Amendment of Act of 2013

45. Amendment of Schedule to National Archives Act 1986


Acts Referred to

Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 and 2005

Carer’s Leave Act 2001 (No. 19)

Child and Family Agency Act 2013 (No. 40)

Children Act 2001 (No. 24)

Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 (No. 8)

Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (No. 11)

Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 (No. 22)

Ethics in Public Office Acts 1995 and 2001

European Parliament Elections Act 1997 (No. 2)

Higher Education Authority Act 2022 (No. 31)

Interpretation Act 2005 (No. 23)

Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)

Maternity Protection Acts 1994 to 2022

Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts 1973 to 2005

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (No. 10)

National Archives Act 1986 (No. 11)

Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 (No. 20)

Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (No. 35)

Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2023

Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 (No. 11)

Prisons Act 1970 (No. 11)

Prisons Act 1972 (No. 7)

Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (No. 14)

Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 (No. 29)

Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001 (No. 45)

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 (No. 33)

Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2022

Standards in Public Office Act 2001 (No. 31)

Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 to 2014

Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2015

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (No. 8)

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Number 31 of 2023


DOMESTIC, SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AGENCY ACT 2023


An Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An Ghníomhaireacht um Fhoréigean Baile, Gnéasach agus Inscnebhunaithe and to provide for its functions; to provide for the transfer of certain functions, staff, rights and liabilities and records of the Child and Family Agency to the said body and for those purposes to amend the Child and Family Agency Act 2013 ; to amend the National Archives Act 1986 ; and to provide for related matters.

[28th November, 2023]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: