Irish Statutory Instruments

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 28th June, 2013.

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 Censorship of Publications Board and Censorship of Publications Appeal Board (Transfer of Ministerial Functions) Order 2013.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 19 June 2013.

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

(2) References to the Department of Justice and Equality contained in any Act or any instrument made under such Act and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be read as references to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Justice and Equality by or under sections 2 and 3 of the Censorship of Publications Act 1946 (No. 1 of 1946) are transferred to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

(2) References to the Minister for Justice and Equality contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Article shall, from the commencement of this Order, be read as references to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

4. Where, immediately before the commencement of this Order, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister for Justice and Equality is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the name of the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht 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 Justice and Equality or added in the proceedings, as may be appropriate, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

5. Anything commenced before the commencement of this Order by or under the authority of the Minister for Justice and Equality may, in so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Order to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, be carried on or completed from such commencement by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

6. Every document (including any certificate or licence) granted or made in the performance 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 from such commencement as if it had been granted or made by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

19 June 2013.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.