Institutes of Technology Act 2006
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Amendment of section 3 of RTC Act. |
4.— Section 3 of the RTC Act is amended— | |
(a) by substituting the following for subsection (1) (as amended by the Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act 1999 ): | ||
“(1) (a) Each institution of higher education specified in column (1) of the First Schedule is declared to be a college to which this Act applies and shall, subject to subsection (4), continue to bear, and to be known by, the name in the Irish language or in the English language by which it is referred to in that Schedule. | ||
(b) Coláiste Ealaíne agus Deartha Crawford (Crawford College of Art and Design), Ceol-Scoil Chorcaí (Cork School of Music) and Coláiste Náisiúnta Mara na hÉireann (National Maritime College of Ireland) are declared to be schools of the Cork Institute of Technology and each of them shall continue to bear, and to be known by, the name in the Irish language or in the English language by which it is referred to in this paragraph. | ||
(c) (i) Coláiste Turasóireachta Na Cealla Beaga (Tourism College Killybegs) is declared to be a school of the Letterkenny Institute of Technology and it shall continue to bear, and to be known by, the name in the Irish language or the English language by which it is referred to in this paragraph, or by such other name as the governing body, subject to the consent of the Minister, may determine. | ||
(ii) Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this paragraph, is— | ||
(I) an employee of County Donegal Vocational Education Committee, and | ||
(II) working for the college referred to in subparagraph (i), | ||
shall, on such commencement, become and be a member of the staff of Letterkenny Institute of Technology and shall not, while in the service of that college, receive less remuneration or be subject to less beneficial conditions of service than the remuneration approved by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance to which that person was entitled and the conditions of service approved by the Minister to which the person was subject before such commencement.”, and | ||
(b) by deleting subsections (2) (as amended by the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 ) and (3). |