Vocational Education (Amendment) Act, 2001

Deposit of monies standing to credit of vocational education committee.

24.—(1) A vocational education committee may, in relation to monies standing to the credit of such committee—

(a) make a deposit within the meaning of Part 3 of the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act, 2000 , on such terms and conditions (including terms and conditions relating to the payment of interest) as it may agree with—

(i) the Minister for Finance, or

(ii) in circumstances where the function conferred on the Minister by section 20(1) of that Act stands delegated to the National Treasury Management Agency by virtue of an order under section 23 of that Act, the National Treasury Management Agency,

or

(b) deposit any such monies with a credit institution on such terms and conditions (including terms and conditions relating to the payment of interest) as it may agree with the credit institution concerned.

(2) In this section “credit institution” means a credit institution within the meaning of the European Communities (Licensing and Supervision of Credit Institutions) Regulations, 1992 ( S.I. No. 395 of 1992 ), authorised and approved by—

(a) the Central Bank of Ireland, or

(b) the competent authority (within the meaning of those Regulations) of a Member State of the European Communities other than the State.