Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1939
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The Department of Supplies. |
2.—(1) A Department of State to be styled and known as the Department of Supplies shall be and is hereby established. | |
(2) The Department of Supplies shall comprise the administration and business in respect of such functions in relation to all or any of the following matters as shall for the time being be allocated under this Act to that Department, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the regulation and control of supplies and services essential to the life of the community; | ||
(b) the maintenance and provision by or on behalf of the State of such supplies as aforesaid; | ||
(c) the provision and operation by or on behalf of the State of such services as aforesaid. | ||
(3) The Minister who has charge of the Department of Supplies shall be styled an t-Aire Soláthairtí or (in English) the Minister for Supplies and shall be a corporation sole under his style or name aforesaid with perpetual succession and an official seal (which shall be officially and judicially noticed) and may sue and, subject to the fiat of the Attorney-General having been granted, be sued under his style or name aforesaid and may acquire, hold, and dispose of land. | ||
(4) The Principal Act (except section 1 and sub-section (1) of section 2 thereof and the sections thereof repealed by this or any other Act) shall apply to the Department of Supplies and the Minister having charge thereof as if that Department had been established by section 1 of the Principal Act. |