Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1971

Revocation of establishment order.

5.—(1) The Minister may by order at any time revoke an establishment order.

(2) A revoking order shall contain such provisions as the Minister thinks necessary or expedient consequential on the revocation, and, in particular, may make provision for—

(a) the dissolution of the body established by the establishment order and the transfer or distribution of the property, rights and liabilities thereof to any of the following—

(i) the Minister,

(ii) any one, or more than one, other body established by an establishment order,

(iii) any one, or more than one, authority to which this Act applies,

(b) the preservation of continuing contracts made by the dissolved body,

(c) the continuance of pending legal proceedings,

(d) notwithstanding any restriction contained in any other Act, the transfer of the holder of any office under the dissolved body to a similar office under—

(i) an authority to which this Act applies,

(ii) any other body established by an establishment order, or

(iii) a Department of State.

(3) A revoking order shall not contain a provision transferring the holder of an office under the dissolved body to an office under a Department of State save with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and, in case the Department is not the Department of Finance, the Minister in charge of the Department concerned.