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S.I. No. 324/1987 - The Health Education Bureau (Establishment) Order, 1975 (Revocation) Order, 1987.

S.I. No. 324 of 1987.

THE HEALTH EDUCATION BUREAU (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER, 1975 (REVOCATION) ORDER, 1987.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 7 of the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 , hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Health Education Bureau (Establishment) Order, 1975 (Revocation) Order, 1987.

2. In this Order—

"the Bureau" means the Health Education Bureau,

"the Minister" means the Minister for Health,

"the appointed day" means the 31st December, 1987.

3. On the appointed day, the Health Education Bureau (Establishment) Order, 1975 ( S.I. No. 22 of 1975 ) shall be revoked and the Bureau shall be dissolved.

4. The following provisions shall apply in relation to the dissolution of the Bureau:

(1) ( a ) All property, whether real or personal (including chosen-in action) which, immediately before the appointed day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust for the Bureau and all rights, powers and privileges relating to or connected with any such property shall on the said day, without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation, or company, become and be vested in or the property of or held in trust for (as the case may require) the Minister for all the estate, term or interest for which the same immediately before the appointed day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust for the Bureau but subject to all trusts and equities affecting the same and then subsisting and capable of being performed.

( b ) All property transferred by this paragraph which immediately before the appointed day was standing in the books of any bank or was registered in the books or any bank, corporation or company in the name of the Bureau shall, upon the request of the Minister made at any time after the said day, be transferred in such books by such bank, corporation or company into the name of the Minister.

( c ) After the appointed day, every chose-in-action transferred by this paragraph from the Bureau to the Minister may be sued upon, recovered or enforced by the Minister and it shall not be necessary for the Minister to give notice to the person bound by such chose inaction of the transfer affected by this paragraph.

(2) ( a ) Every debt and other liability (including mortgage debts and also including unliquidated liabilities arising from tort or breach of contract) which immediately before the appointed day was owing and unpaid or had been incurred and was undischarged by the Bureau shall, on the said day, become and be the debt or liability of the Minister and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered from or enforced against the Minister accordingly.

( b ) The dissolution of the Bureau shall not invalidate or affect any paying order which may have been issued by the Bureau and not presented for payment before the appointed day or any authority given by the Bureau for the payment of the amount of such paying order, and the Minister shall make arrangements for the payment of the amount of every such paying order upon due presentation within a reasonable time after the said day.

(3) Every bond, guarantee or other security of a continuing character made or given by the Bureau to another person or by any person to the Bureau and in force immediately before the appointed day and every contract or agreement in writing made between the Bureau and another person and not fully executed and completed before the said day shall, notwithstanding the dissolution of the Bureau, continue in force after the said day but shall be construed and have effect as if the name of the Minister were substituted therein for the name of the Bureau and such security, contract or agreement shall be enforceable by or against the Minister accordingly.

(4) Every resolution passed, order made, and notice served by the Bureau before the appointed day the operation, effect or term of which had not ceased or expired before the said day shall, after the said day continue in force and have effect as if it were a resolution passed, order made or notice served by the Minister on the date on which the same was actually passed, made or served by the Bureau and as if the functions of the Bureau were, on the said date, performable by the Minister.

(5) In every action, suit prosecution or other proceeding which stood pending immediately before the appointed day in any court or tribunal and to which the Bureau was a party, the Minister shall on the said day become and be a party in the place of the Bureau and such proceeding shall be continued between the Minister and the other parties there-to accordingly, and no such proceeding shall abate or be discontinued, or prejudicially affected by reason of the dissolution of the Bureau.

(6) ( a ) All books and other documents directed or authorised by or under any statute or statutory instrument to be kept by the Bureau and which, immediately before the appointed day, would be receivable in evidence shall notwithstanding the dissolution of the Bureau be admitted in evidence after the said day as fully as if the Bureau had not been dissolved.

( b ) Whenever an extract from or certificate of the contents of any book or other document directed or authorised by or under any statute or statutory instrument to be kept by the Bureau would, if verified in a particular manner by a particular officer of the Bureau, have been admissable immediately before the appointed day as evidence of such contents, an extract from or certificate of the contents of such book or document shall, if certified in such particular manner by the Minister be admitted, after the said day, as evidence of such contents to the same extent as such first mentioned extract or certificate would have been so admitted if the Bureau had not been dissolved.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 16th day of December 1987.

RORY O'HANLON,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The effect of this Order is to dissolve the Health Education Bureau established as a corporate body under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 by S.I. No. 22 of 1975 and to transfer its functions, assets, liabilities etc. to the Minister for Health.