Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1928
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Department of Lands and Fisheries. |
3.—(1) From and after the commencement of this Act the Department of Fisheries shall be known as the Department of Lands and Fisheries and the Minister who is head of that Department shall be, and shall be styled, an t-Aire Tailte agus Iascaigh or (in English) the Minister for Lands and Fisheries. | |
(2) The said Department of Lands and Fisheries shall comprise the administration and business generally of public services in connection with lands (including the fixing of rents and tenure of lands and the acquisition by occupying tenants of full ownership by means of public funds), enlargement and other economic improvement of holdings of land, purchase of land for distribution by way of re-sale, relief of rural congestion and like un-economic conditions, the promoting of rural industries (other than agriculture and industries immediately connected therewith or auxiliary thereto the administration and business generally of the public services relating to which are by this Act assigned to the Department of Agriculture), fisheries (including deep-sea fisheries, tidal waters fisheries, coastal fisheries, inland waters fisheries, and industries connected with the same), and all powers, duties and functions connected with the said public services or any of them and shall include in particular the business, powers, duties and functions of the branches and officers of the public services specified in the Second Part of the Schedule to this Act. | ||
(3) Every mention or reference contained in any Act of the Oireachtas passed before the commencement of this Act or in any order, rule or regulation made or to be made under any such Act or under any British Statute of or to the Minister for Fisheries shall be construed and have effect as a mention of or reference to the Minister for Lands and Fisheries. | ||
(4) Paragraph (viii) of section 1 of the Principal Act and the Seventh Part of the Schedule to the Principal Act are hereby repealed. |