S.I. No. 283/2011 - Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 17th June, 2011.

The Government, on the request of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1977 (No. 28 of 1977), hereby order as follows—

1. This Order may be cited as the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2011.

2. The powers (other than the power to prosecute an offence) and duties of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food conferred on him—

(a) by or under the provisions of the Acts specified in Part 1 of the Schedule,

(b) under the Regulations made under section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972) specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, and

(c) by or under—

(i) the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2007, and

(ii) the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Acts 1926 to 1983,

in so far as they relate to an enactment specified in Part 1 or Regulations specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, as respects the office, or the holder of the office, of inspector or veterinary inspector appointed by a local authority

are delegated to Shane McEntee, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

SCHEDULE

Part 1

Bee Pest Prevention (Ireland) Act 1908

Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Acts 1930 to 1988

Slaughter of Cattle and Sheep Acts 1934 to 1936

Pigs and Bacon Acts 1935 to 1988

Noxious Weeds Act 1936 (No. 38 of 1936)

Forestry Acts 1946 to 2009

Poultry Hatcheries Act 1947 (No. 49 of 1947)

Agricultural Produce (Meat) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 (No. 33 of 1954)

Fertilisers, Feeding Stuffs and Mineral Mixtures Act 1955 (No. 8 of 1955)

Greyhound Industry Acts 1958 and 1993

Agricultural Produce (Meat) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1978 (No. 13 of 1978)

Milk (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 (No. 24 of 1979)

Bovine Diseases (Levies) Act 1979 to 1996

Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) Acts 1980 and 1998

Abattoirs Act (No. 8 of 1988)

Animal Remedies Act 1993 (No. 23 of 1993)

Part 2

European Communities (Caseins and Caseinates) Regulations, 1985 ( S.I. No. 248 of 1985 )

European Communities (Marketing of Vegetable Propagating and Planting Material, other than Seed) Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 159 of 1994 )

European Communities (Marketing of Fruit Plant Propagating Material and Fruit Plants intended for Fruit Production) Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 160 of 1994 )

European Communities (Animal Remedies and Medicated Feedingstuffs) Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 176 of 1994 )

European Communities (Labelling of Beef and Beef Products) Regulations

2000 ( S.I. No. 435 of 2000 )

European Communities (Cereal Seed) Regulations 2001 to 2002

European Communities (Beet Seed) Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 142 of 2001 )

European Communities (Vegetable Seeds) Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 306 of 2001 )

European Communities (Seed of Fodder Plants) Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 198 of 2002 )

European Communities (National Catalogue of Agricultural Plant Varieties) Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 525 of 2002 )

European Communities (Marketing of Forest Reproductive Material) Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 618 of 2002 )

European Communities (Seed of Oil Plants and Fibre Plants) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 280 of 2003 )

European Communities (Dehydrated Preserved Milk) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 298 of 2003 )

European Communities (Organic Farming) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No 112 of 2004 )

European Communities (Monitoring of Zoonoses) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No. 154 of 2004 )

European Communities (Removal of Bovine Vertebral Column) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No. 528 of 2004 )

European Communities (Fertilisers) Regulations 2005 ( S.I. No. 384 of 2005 )

European Communities (Aerial Fertilisation) (Forestry) Regulations 2006 ( S.I. No. 592 of 2006 )

European Communities (Control of salmonella in breeding flocks of domestic fowl) Regulations 2006 ( S.I. No. 706 of 2006 )

European Communities (Plastic and other materials) (Contact with food) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 587 of 2007 )

European Communities (Animal Remedies) (No 2) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 786 of 2007 )

European Communities (Control of salmonella in laying flocks of domestic fowl) Regulations 2008 ( S.I. No. 247 of 2008 )

European Communities (Transmissible Spongiform Enchophalopathies and Animal By-Products) Regulations 2008 ( S.I. No. 252 of 2008 )

European Communities (Pesticide Residues) Regulations 2008 ( S.I. No. 565 of 2008 )

European Communities (Control of salmonella in Broilers) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 64 of 2009 )

European Communities (Control of Animal Remedies and their Residues) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 183 of 2009 )

European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulations, 2009 ( S.I. No. 432 of 2009 )

European Communities (Notification of Small Hive Beetle and Tropilaelaps mite) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 589 of 2009 )

European Communities (Control of salmonella in turkeys) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 99 of 2010 )

European Communities (Marketing of Fruit Propagating Material) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 152 of 2010 )

European Communities (Poultry and Hatching Eggs) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 564 of 2010 )

GIVEN under the Official Seal, of the Government,

14 June 2011.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order delegates to Shane McEntee T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the powers and duties of the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Acts and Instruments specified in the Order.