S.I. No. 155/2023 - Agriculture Food And The Marine (Delegation Of Ministerial Functions) Order 2023


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 31st March, 2023.

The Government, on the request of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1977 (No. 28 of 1977), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2023.

2. The powers (other than the power to prosecute an offence) and duties of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine conferred on him –

(a) by or under the enactments specified in Part 1 of the Schedule, and

(b) under the Regulations specified in Part 2 of the Schedule,

are delegated to Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

SCHEDULE

Article 2

Part 1

Destructive Insects and Pests (Consolidation) Act 1958 (No. 11 of 1958)

Destructive Insects and Pests (Amendment) Act 1991 (No. 4 of 1991)

Forestry Act 1988 (No. 26 of 1988)

Forestry Act 2014 (No. 31 of 2014)

Subsections (1A) and (1B) of section 14A of the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001 (No. 29 of 2001)

Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (No. 15 of 2013), in so far as it relates to bees.

Part 2

European Communities (Marketing of Forest Reproductive Material) Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 618 of 2002 )

European Communities (Water Policy) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 722 of 2003 )

European Communities Environmental Objectives (Freshwater Pearl Mussel) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 296 of 2009 )

European Union (Marketing of Vegetable Propagating and Planting Material, Other than Seed) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 152 of 2014 )

European Union (Timber and Timber Products) (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 316 of 2014 )

European Union (FLEGT Licensing Scheme for Imports of Timber) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 251 of 2015 )

European Union (Temporary Increase of Official Controls and Emergency Measures on Imports of Food and Feed of Non-animal Origin) Regulations 2020 ( S.I. No. 9 of 2020 )

European Union (Organic Farming) Regulations 2022 ( S.I. No. 494 of 2022 )

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GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

28 March, 2023.

LEO VARADKAR,

Taoiseach.