S.I. No. 455/2011 - Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 13th September, 2011.

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 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 17 October 2011.

2. The name of the Department of State, the present name of which is, in the Irish language, An Roinn Talmhaíochta, Iascaigh agus Bia and, in the English language, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, is altered, in the Irish language, to that of An Roinn Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara and, in the English language, to that of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

3. The title of the Minister having charge of the Department of State, whose present title is, in the Irish language, an tAire Talmhaíochta, Iascaigh agus Bia and, in the English language, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, is altered, in the Irish language, to that of an tAire Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara and, in the English language, to that of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

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

(a) references to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall be construed as references to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and

(b) references to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall be construed as references to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

8 September 2011.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.