Statistics Act, 1926
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Collection etc., of particular statistics by particular Ministers. |
3.—(1) In addition and without prejudice to the power conferred on the Executive Council by sub-section (2) of section 12 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924) of redistributing public services and officers amongst the several Ministers and Departments of State, the Executive Council may by order transfer the powers and duties conferred by this Act on the Minister for Industry and Commerce in relation to any particular class or classes of statistics to any other Minister, and, where any such order has been made, may at any time transfer such powers and duties to a different Minister or retransfer the same to the Minister for Industry and Commerce. | |
(2) If and so long as the powers and duties conferred on the Minister for Industry and Commerce by this Act in relation to any class of statistics are vested by virtue of an order made under this section in any other Minister the Minister for Industry and Commerce shall be responsible for the co-ordination of the execution of this Act in his own Department and the several Departments of the Ministers in whom any of the said powers and duties are for the time being vested, and with a view to such co-ordination no such Minister shall initiate the collection of any statistics under this Act without previous consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce. | ||
(3) No transfer under this section of any powers and duties from the Minister for Industry and Commerce to any other Minister shall prejudice or affect the power of the Minister for Industry and Commerce to compile and issue under this Act from time to time a publication containing the collected statistics of Saorstát Eireann and to include in such publication, in addition to statistics collected by him under this Act, statistics collected by any other Minister or under any other enactment. | ||
(4) If and so long as the powers and duties conferred and imposed on the Minister for Industry and Commerce by this Act in relation to any class of statistics are vested by virtue of an order made under this section in any other Minister, such other Minister shall have and may exercise all or any of the powers and shall perform the duties conferred or imposed by this Act on the Minister for Industry and Commerce so far as such powers and duties relate to such class of statistics. |