Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003
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Transfer of rights and liabilities. |
11.—(1) With effect from the establishment day the following are transferred to the Commission— | |
(a) all rights and property (and rights relating to such property) held or enjoyed immediately before that day by the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas in the performance by it of its functions referred to in section 4 , | ||
(b) all liabilities incurred before that day by the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas in the performance by it of its functions, | ||
and, accordingly, without any further conveyance, transfer or assignment— | ||
(i) the said property, shall on that day vest in the Commission for all the estate, term or interest for which, immediately before that day, it was vested in the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas, but subject to all trusts and equities affecting the property and capable of being performed, | ||
(ii) those rights shall, as and from that day be enjoyed by the Commission, and | ||
(iii) those liabilities shall, as and from that day, be liabilities of the Commission. | ||
(2) Every right and liability transferred to the Commission by this section may, on or after the establishment day, be sued on, recovered or enforced by or against the Commission in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the Commission to give notice of the transfer to the person whose right or liability is transferred by this section. |