Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1973
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The Department of the Public Service. |
3.—(1) On the appointed day a Department of State to be styled and known as Roinn na Seirbhíse Poiblí or (in English) the Department of the Public Service shall stand established. | |
(2) The member of the Government who is in charge of the Department of the Public Service shall be styled and known as Aire na Seirbhise Poibli or (in English) the Minister for the Public Service. | ||
(3) The Department of Finance and the Department of the Public Service shall be assigned to the same person. | ||
(4) The Ministers and Secretaries Acts, 1924 to 1966, and the Documentary Evidence Act, 1925 , shall apply to the Department of the Public Service 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. | ||
(5) For the purposes of section 6 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1939 , the Department of the Public Service and the office of Minister for the Public Service shall be deemed to have been established immediately upon the passing of this Act, but any order which is made, in relation to that Department or that Minister, under the said section 6 (1) before the appointed day shall not be expressed to come into operation on a date earlier than the appointed day. |