S.I. No. 288/2008 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2008

1. This Order may be cited as the Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2008.

2. The powers (other than the power to prosecute an offence) and duties of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment conferred on her by or under the enactments specified in the Schedule are delegated to Jimmy Devins, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

SCHEDULE

Part II of the

Science and Technology Act 1987

(No. 30 of 1987)

Patents Act 1992 (No. 1 of 1992)

Trade Marks Act 1996 (No. 6 of 1996)

Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 2000)

Industrial Designs Act 2001 (No. 39 of 2001)

Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003 (No. 30 of 2003)

Patents (Amendment) Act 2006 (No. 31 of 2006)

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government

15 July 2008

BRIAN COWEN.

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

This Order delegates to Jimmy Devins, T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment the powers and duties of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment under the Acts and Instruments specified in the Order.

S.I. No. 288 of 2008

ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT (DELEGATION OF MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS) ORDER 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

18

th July

, 2008.

The Government, on the request of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment 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