S.I. No. 447/2020 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 23rd October, 2020.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 6 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 (No. 36 of 1939), hereby order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 21 October 2020.

2. The name of the Department of State, the present name of which is, in the Irish language, an Roinn Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Sóisialaí and, in the English language, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, is altered, in the Irish language, to that of an Roinn Coimirce Sóisialaí and, in the English language, to that of the Department of Social Protection.

3. The title of the Minister having charge of the Department of State, whose present title is, in the Irish language, an tAire Gnóthaí Fostaíochta agus Coimirce Sóisialaí and, in the English language, the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, is altered, in the Irish language, to that of an tAire Coimirce Sóisialaí and, in the English language, to that of the Minister for Social Protection.

4. In any enactment or any instrument made under an enactment -

(a) references to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection shall be construed as references to the Department of Social Protection;

(b) references to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection shall be construed as references to the Minister for Social Protection.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

20 October, 2020.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.