Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act, 1988
Directions by Minister to Teagasc. |
19.—(1) (a) The Minister may give a direction in writing to Teagasc requiring it— | |
(i) to provide specified services or to carry on specified activities that it is authorised by section 4 or 5 to provide or, as the case may be, carry on, | ||
(ii) to refrain from providing specified services or carrying on specified activities, | ||
(iii) to incur expenditure of specified amounts, or to increase by specified amounts its expenditure, on specified services or specified activities that it is authorised by section 4 or 5 to provide or, as the case may be, carry on, | ||
(iv) to refrain from incurring expenditure, or to reduce by specified amounts its expenditure, on specified services or specified activities, or | ||
(v) to refrain from making charges for specified services or to make specified variations in the charges for specified services. | ||
(b) References in paragraph (a) to the provision of services and to the carrying on of activities include references to the arrangement of such provision and carrying on. | ||
(2) The Minister may give a direction in writing to Teagasc in relation to policy generally, in relation to any matter specified in a report furnished to him under section 12 (2) or subsection (1) or (3) of section 13 or in relation to any information furnished to him under section 13 (5). |