S.I. No. 304 of 2002

Local Development and National Drugs Strategy (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2002

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 6(1) of No. 36 of 1939 ), hereby order as follows:

1.         (1)        This Order may be cited as the Local Development and National Drugs Strategy (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2002.

(2)        This Order comes into operation on 18 June 2002.

2.         In this Order “functions” includes powers and duties.

3.         (1)        The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by Article 4 of this Order are transferred to the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

(2)        References to the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder or the document referred to in Article 4 (2) of this Order and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) of this Article shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

4.         (1)        The functions vested in the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation in relation to local development and co-ordination of the national drugs strategy, are transferred to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

(2)        References to the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder or a document entitled “Building on Experience-National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008” and relating to any functions transferred by this Article shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

5.         Where, immediately before the commencement of the Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, the name of the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands shall, in so far as the proceedings relate to any function transferred by this Order, be substituted in the proceedings for that of the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation or added in the proceedings, as may be appropriate, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

6.         Anything commenced before the commencement of this Order by or under the authority of the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation may, in so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, be carried on or completed on or after such commencement by the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

7.         Every document (including any certificate or licence) granted or made in the exercise of a function transferred by this Order shall, if and in so far as it was operative immediately before the commencement of this Order, have effect on and after such commencement as if it had been granted or made by the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order transfers to the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands and to the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, respectively, with effect from the date of this Order, the Departmental Administration and Ministerial functions in relation to Local Development and the co-ordination of Drugs Strategy.

Published by the Stationery Office, Dublin 2