Criminal Assets Bureau Act, 1996

Conferral of additional functions on Bureau.

6.—(1) The Minister may, if the Minister so thinks fit, and after consultation with the Minister for Finance, by order—

(a) confer on the Bureau or its bureau officers such additional functions connected with the objectives and functions for the time being of the Bureau, and

(b) make such provision as the Minister considers necessary or expedient in relation to matters ancillary to or arising out of the conferral on the Bureau or its bureau officers of functions under this section or the performance by the Bureau or its bureau officers of functions so conferred.

(2) The Minister may by order amend or revoke an order under this section (including an order under this subsection).

(3) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(4) In this section “functions” includes powers and duties.