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Youth Work Act 2001 (LRC Revised) Open official source

Number 42 of 2001

YOUTH WORK ACT 2001

REVISED

Updated to 1 May 2025

Changes to legislation

as of 10 July 2026, this Act is up to date with all changes known to be in force.

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the

Youth Work Act 2001

. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under

the

Law Reform Commission Act 1975

(3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation

of statute law.

All Acts up to and including

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Act 2025

(3/2025), enacted 15 April 2025, enacted 21 December 2022, and all statutory instruments

up to and including

Youth Work (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order

2025

(S.I. No. 185 of 2025), made 29 April 2025, were considered in the preparation of

this revision.

Disclaimer: While every care has been taken in the preparation of this Revised Act,

the Law Reform Commission can assume no responsibility for and give no guarantees,

undertakings or warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness or up to date nature

of the information provided and does not accept any liability whatsoever arising from

any errors or omissions. Please notify any errors, omissions and comments by email

revisedacts@lawreform.ie.

Number

2001

YOUTH WORK ACT 2001

REVISED

Updated to 1 May 2025

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1

Preliminary

Section

Short title and commencement.

Interpretation.

Definition of “youth work”.

Regulations.

Laying of orders and regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas.

Expenses of Minister.

Repeal of Youth Work Act, 1997.

PART 2

Youth Work Functions of Minister and [education and training boards]

Youth work functions of Minister.

Youth work functions of [education and training board].

10.

Withdrawal or reduction of assistance.

11.

Provision of programmes and services where none currently provided.

12.

Removal of youth work functions of [education and training board].

PART 3

Youth Work Development Plans, Programmes and Services

13.

Youth Work Development Plan.

14.

Review of Development Plan.

15.

Provision of youth work programmes and youth work services by Minister.

PART 4

Youth Work Officers and Organisations

Assessor of Youth Work

16.

Assessor of Youth Work.

National Youth Work Advisory Committee

17.

National Youth Work Advisory Committee.

18.

Membership of Advisory Committee.

Youth Work Committees

19.

Youth Work Committees.

20.

Membership of Youth Work Committees.

Voluntary Youth Councils

21.

Voluntary Youth Councils.

22.

Composition, election, etc. of Voluntary Youth Councils.

23.

Meetings, etc. of Voluntary Youth Councils.

Prescribed, Authorised, Approved and Designated Youth Organisations

24.

Prescribed National Representative Youth Work Organisation.

25.

Authorisation of organisations.

26.

Approved National Voluntary Youth Work Organisations.

27.

Review of Minister's refusal to approve national youth work organisation.

28.

Withdrawal of approved status from National Voluntary Youth Work Organisations.

29.

Designation of Local Voluntary Youth Work Organisations.

30.

Review of [education and training board]'s refusal to designate organisation.

31.

Withdrawal of designated organisation status.

PART 5

Financial

32.

Youth Work Budget.

33.

Supervision of Youth Work Budget.

34.

Grants.

35.

Withdrawal or reduction of grant.

PART 6

General

36.

Directions.

37.

Publication of lists.

SCHEDULE

National Youth Work Advisory Committee

Acts Referred to

Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act, 1993

1993, No. 8

Education Act, 1998

1998, No. 51

Vocational Education Act, 1930

1930, No. 29

Vocational Education Acts, 1930 to 1999

Youth Work Act, 1997

1997, No. 30

Number

2001

YOUTH WORK ACT 2001

REVISED

Updated to 1 May 2025

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE FUNCTIONS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COMMITTEES IN RELATION TO YOUTH

WORK, TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAKING OF GRANTS IN RESPECT OF YOUTH WORK, TO PROVIDE FOR

THE APPOINTMENT OF AN ASSESSOR OF YOUTH WORK AND HIS OR HER FUNCTIONS UNDER THE ACT,

TO ESTABLISH VOLUNTARY YOUTH COUNCILS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND CO-ORDINATION

OF ORGANISATIONS AND PERSONS ENGAGED IN YOUTH WORK AND IN THE PROVISION OF YOUTH WORK

PROGRAMMES AND YOUTH WORK SERVICES AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL YOUTH

WORK ADVISORY COMMITTEE, TO REPEAL THE YOUTH WORK ACT, 1997, AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED

MATTERS. [1

st December

, 2001]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text)

Functions transferred and

references to Minister for and Department of Children, Equality, Disability,

Integration and Youth construed (1.05.2025) as Minister for and Department of

Education by

Youth (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial

Functions) Order 2025

(S.I. No. 181 of 2025), arts. 2, 3, in effect as per

art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 4-8.

2. (1) The administration and

business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any

functions transferred by Article 3 are transferred to the Department of Education.

(2) References to the Department

of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth contained in any Act or

any instrument made under such Act and relating to the administration and business

transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order,

be construed as references to the Department of Education.

3. (1) The functions vested in

the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth by or under

–

(a) the Youth Work Act 2001 (No.

42 of 2001),

...

are transferred to the Minister

for Education.

(2) The functions vested in the

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to

(a) the funding, oversight and

support for -

(i) organisations that support

the provision of youth work,

(ii) youth organisations, and

(iii) the youth work functions

of education and training boards, and

(b) the development and

implementation of policies in relation to youth, youth work and related services,

are transferred to the Minister

for Education.

(3) References to the Minister for

Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth contained in any Act or

instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by this

Article shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as

references to the Minister for Education.

...

Functions transferred and references to Department of and Minister for

Finance construed as Department of and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

(29.07.2011) by

Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and

Ministerial Functions) Order 2011

(S.I. No. 418 of 2011), arts. 2, 3, 5 and

sch. 1 part 2, in effect as per art. 1(2).

2. (1) The administration and

business in connection with the performance of any functions transferred by this

Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

(2) References to the Department

of Finance contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to the

administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the

commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public

Expenditure and Reform.

3. The functions conferred on the

Minister for Finance by or under the provisions of —

(a) the enactments specified in

Schedule 1, and

(b) the statutory instruments

specified in Schedule 2,

are transferred to the Minister

for Public Expenditure and Reform.

...

5. References to the Minister for

Finance contained in any Act or instrument under an Act and relating to any

functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be

construed as references to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

...

Schedule 1

Enactments

...

Part 2

1922 to 2011 Enactments

Number and Year

Short Title

Provision

...

No. 42 of 2001

...

Youth Work Act 2001

...

Sections 16(8) and (9), 19(8), 23(4) and 34; Schedule, paragraph 6

...

Functions transferred to Health Service Executive and specified bodies

dissolved (1.01.2005) by

Health Act 2004

(42/2004), ss. 58, 59 and sch. 3

item 60 (S.I. No. 885 of 2004).

Dissolution of health

boards and other specified bodies.

58.

—The specified bodies are, by this Act, dissolved on the establishment day.

Transfer of functions

of specified bodies to Executive.

59.

—(1) The functions that, immediately before the establishment day, were the functions

of a specified body under or in connection with the enactments referred to in Schedule

3 are, by this Act, transferred to the Executive on that day.

(2) If a provision of an enactment referred to in Schedule 3 , or a provision of an

instrument made under such enactment, does not come into effect until on or after

the establishment day, a function that on the passing of that enactment or the making

of that instrument was assigned under or in connection with that provision to a specified

body is, by this Act, transferred to the Executive on the commencement of that provision.

(3) The functions transferred by this Act to the Executive include the functions specified

in any enactment referred to in Schedule 3 as a function of the following

(a) the chief executive officer

of a health board;

(b) the Regional Chief Executive

of the Eastern Regional Health Authority;

an Area Health Board.

...

SCHEDULE

THREE

Transfer of Functions and References to Functional Areas

Section 59 and 67.

...

60.

—Youth Work Act 2001

...

Editorial Notes

Previous affecting

provision: functions transferred and references to Minister for and Department of

Health and Children construed as Minister for and Department of Children and Youth

Affairs (3.06.2011) by

Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs

(Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order

2011

(S.I. No. 218 of 2011), arts. 2, 3 and sch, in effect as per art.

1(2); superseded (1.05.2025) as per C-note above.

Previous affecting

provision: functions transferred and references to Minister for and Department of

Education and Science construed as Minister for and Department of Health and

Children (31.12.2008) by

Youth Work (Transfer of Departmental Administration

and Ministerial Functions) Order 2008

(S.I. No. 596 of 2008), arts. 3, 4,

in effect as per art. 1(2); superseded (3.06.2011) as per E-note above.