Freedom of Information Act, 1997
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FIRST SCHEDULE Public Bodies | ||
1. Each of the following shall be a public body for the purposes of this Act: | ||
(1) the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, | ||
the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, | ||
the Department of Defence, | ||
the Department of Education, | ||
the Department of Enterprise and Employment, | ||
the Department of the Environment, | ||
the Department of Equality and Law Reform, | ||
the Department of Finance, | ||
the Department of Foreign Affairs, | ||
the Department of Health, | ||
the Department of Justice (including the Probation and Welfare Service), | ||
the Department of the Marine, | ||
the Department of Social Welfare, | ||
the Department of the Taoiseach, | ||
the Department of Tourism and Trade, | ||
the Department of Transport, Energy and Communications, | ||
the Office of the Tánaiste, | ||
the Office of the Attorney General. | ||
(2) the Army Pensions Board, | ||
the Blood Transfusion Service Board, | ||
the Board of the National Library of Ireland, | ||
the Board of the National Museum of Ireland, | ||
An Bord Pleanála, | ||
the Censorship of Publications Board, | ||
the Central Statistics Office, | ||
the Civil Service Commissioners, | ||
An Coimisiún Logainmneacha, | ||
An Comhairle na Nimheanna, | ||
An Comhairle na nOspidéal, | ||
the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests, | ||
the Companies Registration Office, | ||
the Competition Authority, | ||
the Commissioners of Public Works, | ||
the Defence Forces, | ||
the Employment Equality Agency, | ||
the Environmental Information Service, | ||
the Environmental Protection Agency, | ||
the Government Information Services, | ||
the Heritage Council, | ||
the Ireland — United States Commission for Educational Exchange, | ||
the Irish Manuscripts Commission, | ||
the Irish Medicines Board, | ||
the Irish Sports Council, | ||
the Land Registry, | ||
the Local Appointments Commissioners, | ||
the National Archives, | ||
the National Archives Advisory Council, | ||
the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, | ||
the National Gallery of Ireland, | ||
the Office of the Appeal Commissioners for the purposes of | ||
the Tax Acts, | ||
the Office of the Chief Medical Officer for the Civil Service, | ||
the Office of the Commissioner, | ||
the Office of the Commissioner of Valuation and Boundary Surveyor for Ireland, | ||
the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, | ||
the Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs, | ||
the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, | ||
the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas, | ||
the Office of the Official Censor of Films, | ||
the Office of the Ombudsman, | ||
the Office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies, | ||
the Patents Office, | ||
the Pensions Board, | ||
the Public Offices Commission, | ||
the Registry of Deeds, | ||
the Revenue Commissioners, | ||
the Social Welfare Appeals Office, | ||
the State Laboratory. | ||
(3) a local authority. | ||
(4) a health board. | ||
(5) any body, organisation or group standing prescribed for the time being, with the consent of such other (if any) Minister of the Government as the Minister considers appropriate having regard to the functions of that other Minister of the Government, and being— | ||
(a) the Garda Siochána, | ||
(b) a body, organisation or group established— | ||
(i) by or under any enactment (other than the Companies Acts, 1963 to 1990) or any scheme administered by a Minister of the Government, | ||
or | ||
(ii) under the Companies Acts, 1963 to 1990, in pursuance of powers conferred by or under another enactment, and financed wholly or partly, whether directly or indirectly, by means of moneys provided, or loans made or guaranteed, by a Minister of the Government or the issue of shares held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government, | ||
(c) any other body, organisation or group financed as aforesaid, | ||
(d) a company (within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1963 ) a majority of the shares in which are held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government, | ||
(e) any other body, organisation or group appointed by the Government or a Minister of the Government, | ||
(f) subject to paragraph 2, any other body, organisation or group on which functions in relation to the general public or a class of the general public stand conferred by any enactment, or | ||
(g) a subsidiary of a body, organisation or group specified in any of the foregoing provisions of this subparagraph. | ||
2. A body, organisation or group standing prescribed pursuant to regulations for the purposes of clause (f) of paragraph 1 (5) shall be a public body only as respects functions referred to in that clause. | ||
3. The Minister may, with the consent of such other (if any) Minister of the Government as the Minister considers appropriate having regard to the functions of that other Minister of the Government, by regulations amend subparagraph (2) of paragraph 1 by the deletion of a reference to any public body. | ||
4. A reference in subparagraph (1) of paragraph 1 to any particular Department of State shall be construed as— | ||
(a) including a reference to a body, organisation or group specified in relation to that Department of State in the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (not being a public body specified in subparagraph (2) of that paragraph), and | ||
(b) not including any other body, organisation or group. |