S.I. No. 437/2020 - Children and Youth Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Children and Youth Affairs (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020.

(2) This Order comes into operation on 15 October 2020.

2. The name of the Department of State, the present name of which is, in the Irish language, an Roinn Leanaí agus Gnóthaí Óige and, in the English language, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, is altered, in the Irish language, to that of an Roinn Leanaí, Comhionannais, Míchumais, Lánpháirtíochta agus Óige and, in the English language, to that of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

3. The title of the Minister having charge of the Department of State, whose present title is, in the Irish language, an tAire Leanaí agus Gnóthaí Óige and, in the English language, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is altered, in the Irish language, to that of an tAire Leanaí, Comhionannais, Míchumais, Lánpháirtíochta agus Óige and, in the English language, to that of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

4. In any enactment or any instrument made under an enactment -

(

a

) references to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs shall be construed as references to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and

(

b

) references to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs shall be construed as references to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

13 October, 2020.

MICHEÁL MARTIN,

Taoiseach.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

16

th October,

2020.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 6 (1) of the

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939

(No. 36 of 1939), hereby order as follows