S.I. No. 384/1983:

TRADE, COMMERCE AND TOURISM (ALTERATION OF NAME OF DEPARTMENT AND TITLE OF MINISTER) ORDER, 1983.

TRADE, COMMERCE AND TOURISM (ALTERATION OF NAME OF DEPARTMENT AND TITLE OF MINISTER) ORDER, 1983.

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

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Trade, Commerce and Tourism (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1983.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 17th day of December, 1983.

2. The name of the Department of State, the present name whereof is, in the Irish language, an Roinn Trádála, Tráchtála agus Turasóireachta and, in the English language, the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism, is hereby altered, in the Irish language, to that of an Roinn Tionscail, Trádála, Tráchtála agus Turasóireachta and, in the English language, to that of the Department of Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.

3. The title of the Minister having charge of a Department of State, whose present title is, in the Irish language, an tAire Trádála, Tráchtála agus Turasóireachta and, in the English language, the Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism, is hereby altered, in the Irish language, to that of an tAire Tionscail, Trádála, Tráchtála agus Turasóireachta and, in the English language, to that of the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.

4. In any enactment--

( a ) references to the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism shall be construed as references to the Department of Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism;

( b ) references to the Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism shall be construed as references to the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 15th day of December, 1983.

GARRET FITZGERALD,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order changes the name of the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism to that of the Department of Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism and the title of the Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism to that of the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism.