Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1983
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Transfer of functions of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and abolition of office. |
3.—(1) On the appointed day— | |
(a) the functions vested immediately before the appointed day in the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs shall, by virtue of this section, be transferred to the Minister for Communications, and | ||
(b) the office of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and the Department of Posts and Telegraphs shall, by virtue of this section, be abolished. | ||
(2) (a) References to the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs contained immediately before the appointed day— | ||
(i) in any statute passed before the appointed day (other than such reference in the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 , in relation to adaptations (whether alone or with other adaptations or amendments) of references to the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs or in relation to anything done, or existing, before the vesting day (within the meaning of that Act)), or | ||
(ii) in any statutory instrument made before the appointed day (other than a statutory instrument referred to in section 9 (2), 72, 74 (4) or 92 or subsection (2) or (4) of section 103 of that Act), | ||
shall, on and after the appointed day, be construed as references to the Minister for Communications. | ||
(b) The Minister for Communications may make regulations for the purpose of enabling paragraph (a) of this subsection to have full effect having regard to subsection (1) of this section and the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 . | ||
(c) Every regulation made by the Minister for Communications under this subsection shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent 21 days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder. |