S.I. No. 450/2020 - Education and Skills (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 23rd October, 2020.

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 Education and Skills (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 22 October 2020.

2. The name of the Department of State, the present name of which is, in the Irish language, An Roinn Oideachais agus Scileanna and, in the English language, the Department of Education and Skills, is altered, in the Irish language, to that of an Roinn Oideachais and, in the English language, to that of the Department of Education.

3. The title of the Minister having charge of the Department of State, whose present title is, in the Irish language, an tAire Oideachais agus Scileanna and, in the English language, the Minister for Education and Skills, is altered, in the Irish language, to that of an tAire Oideachais and, in the English language, to that of the Minister for Education.

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

(a) references to the Department of Education and Skills shall be construed as references to the Department of Education;

(b) references to the Minister for Education and Skills shall be construed as references to the Minister for Education.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

20 October, 2020.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.