Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995
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FIRST SCHEDULE Public Bodies | ||
1. Each of the following shall be a public body for the purposes of this Act: | ||
(1) a Department of State (including, as respects any particular Department of State, any office or body not otherwise standing specified in or under this Schedule in relation to which functions are vested in the Minister of the Government having charge of that Department of State), | ||
(2) the Office of the President, | ||
(3) the Office of the Tánaiste, | ||
(4) the Office of the Attorney General, | ||
(5) the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, | ||
(6) the Office of the Ombudsman, | ||
(7) the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas, | ||
(8) a local authority (within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1941 ), | ||
(9) a health board, | ||
(10) a body, organisation or group established— | ||
(a) by or under any enactment (other than the Companies Acts, 1963 to 1990), or | ||
(b) under the Companies Acts, 1963 to 1990, in pursuance of powers conferred by or under another enactment, and financed wholly or partly by means of moneys provided, or loans made or guaranteed, by a Minister of the Government or the issue of shares held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government, | ||
(11) a company (within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1963 ) a majority of the shares in which are held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government, | ||
(12) any other body, organisation or group appointed by the Government or a Minister of the Government, | ||
(13) any other body, organisation or group financed wholly or partly out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas that stands prescribed for the time being (being a body, organisation or group that, in the opinion of the Minister, ought, in the public interest and having regard to the provisions and spirit of this Act, to be prescribed). | ||
2. (1) In paragraph 1 “Office”, in relation to a person, means the offices in which the administration and business relating to the functions of the person are carried on. | ||
(2) There shall be deemed to be included in subparagraphs (8) to (12) of paragraph 1 any subsidiary (within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1963 ) of a public body specified in those subparagraphs. |