Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 25th May, 2012.

I, RUAIRI QUINN, Minister for Education and Skills, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 9(1) of the Student Support Act 2011 (No. 4 of 2011), having complied with section 9(4) of that Act, and with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Student Support Act (Appointment of Awarding Authority) Order 2012.

2. This Order comes into operation on 22 May 2012.

3. In this Order-

"appointed awarding authority" shall be construed in accordance with Article 4;

"Principal Act" means the Student Support Act 2011 (No. 4 of 2011);

"transferring awarding authority" means an awarding authority specified in the Schedule.

4. The City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee is the awarding authority appointed as the appointed awarding authority to perform all of the functions (other than those functions referred to in Article 5) of a transferring awarding authority.

5. Subject to the Principal Act a transferring awarding authority shall, in relation to a student who under the Principal Act was prior to the coming into operation of this Order in receipt of a grant from the transferring awarding authority, continue to perform all of the functions of an awarding authority in relation to the student until he or she has completed the course in respect of which he or she was awarded the grant.

6. Within a period of 14 days of the receipt by the transferring awarding authority of a request from the appointed awarding authority, a transferring awarding authority shall provide to the appointed awarding authority such records, data or information or a class of such records, data or information as relate to a function transferred to the appointed awarding authority.

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE

Transferring Awarding Authority

Carlow County Council

Cavan County Council

Clare County Council

Cork City Council

Cork County Council

Donegal County Council

Dublin City Council

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

Fingal County Council

South Dublin County Council

Galway County Council

Kerry County Council

Kildare County Council

Kilkenny County Council

Laois County Council

Leitrim County Council

Limerick City Council

Limerick County Council

Longford County Council

Louth County Council

Mayo County Council

Meath County Council

Monaghan County Council

Offaly County Council

Roscommon County Council

Sligo County Council

Tipperary N.R. County Council

Tipperary S.R. County Council

Waterford City Council

Waterford County Council

Westmeath County Council

Wexford County Council

Wicklow County Council

County Cavan Vocational Education Committee

County Donegal Vocational Education Committee

County Monaghan Vocational Education Committee

City of Cork Vocational Education Committee

County Cork Vocational Education Committee

Kerry Education Service

City of Limerick Vocational Education Committee

County Limerick Vocational Education Committee

North Tipperary Vocational Education Committee

South Tipperary Vocational Education Committee

City of Waterford Vocational Education Committee

County Waterford Vocational Education Committee

Carlow Vocational Education Committee

Kildare Vocational Education Committee

Kilkenny Vocational Education Committee

Louth Vocational Education Committee

Meath Vocational Education Committee

Wexford Vocational Education Committee

Wicklow Vocational Education Committee

County Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Dún Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee

Laois Vocational Education Committee

Longford Vocational Education Committee

Offaly Vocational Education Committee

Westmeath Vocational Education Committee

Clare Vocational Education Committee

City of Galway Vocational Education Committee

County Galway Vocational Education Committee

Leitrim Vocational Education Committee

Mayo Vocational Education Committee

Roscommon Vocational Education Committee

Sligo Vocational Education Committee

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, consents to the making of this Order.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform,

22 May 2012.

BRENDAN HOWLIN,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

22 May 2012.

RUAIRI QUINN,

Minister for Education and Skills.