No. 69/1927:

SAORSTÁT EIREANN FORESTRY COMMISSIONERS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) ORDER, 1927.

SAORSTÁT EIREANN FORESTRY COMMISSIONERS (TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS) ORDER, 1927.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924) that it shall be lawful for the Executive Council by an Order of the Executive Council to dissolve any board of commissioners or statutory body to which that Section applies, and by the same Order to transfer to or confer or impose on the Minister who is the head of the appropriate Department of State concerned with the public services of any board of commissioners or statutory body dissolved under that Section all or any of the jurisdictions, powers, duties, and functions of such dissolved board of commissioners or statutory body and by the same Order to make such adaptations and modifications as the Executive Council may consider necessary of or in any British Statute relating to any board of commissioners or other statutory body dissolved under that Section:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by Sub-section (4) of the said Section 9 that the boards of commissioners and statutory bodies to which that Section applies include any board of commissioners established by Order of the Executive Council under Section 7 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922):

AND WHEREAS the Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners are a board of commissioners established by Order of the Executive Council under the said Section 7 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 , and the Minister for Lands and Agriculture is the Minister who is the head of the Department of State concerned with the public services of the said Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners should be dissolved and that their jurisdictions, powers, duties and functions should be transferred to and conferred and imposed on the Minister for Lands and Agriculture:

NOW, THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of Saorstát Eireann in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said Section 9 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby Order as follows :—

1. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners (Transfer of Functions) Order, 1927.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners are hereby dissolved.

4. All the jurisdictions, powers, duties and functions of the Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners are hereby transferred to and conferred and imposed on the Minister for Lands and Agriculture.

5. Every mention or reference contained in any British Statute of or to the Forestry Commissioners or the Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners shall, so far as the same is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Order, be construed and take effect as a mention of or reference to the Minister for Lands and Agriculture.

DUBLIN.

This 12th day of August, 1927.