S.I. No. 35/2017 - Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2017.

2. The amount of € 1,117,991,713 is specified for the purposes of

section 12

(5) of the

Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001

.

The Minister for Finance consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

24 January 2017.

MICHAEL NOONAN,

Minister for Finance.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

31 January 2017.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

31 January 2017.

MICHAEL CREED,

Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

7

th February

, 2017.

I, MICHAEL CREED, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 12(5)(as amended by

section 88

of the

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011

(No. 10 of 2011)) of the

Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001

(No. 20 of 2001) and the Horse and Greyhound Racing (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2010 (

S.I. No. 179 of 2010

) (as adapted by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 (

S.I. No. 455 of 2011

)), with the consent of the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, hereby make the following regulations with respect to which, pursuant to section 12(13) of that Act, a draft has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House