Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992

Number 16 of 1992

REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGES ACT 1992

REVISED

Updated to 10 November 2022

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992. 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.

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Number 16 of 1992


REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGES ACT 1992

REVISED

Updated to 10 November 2022


FIRST SCHEDULE

The Colleges

SECOND SCHEDULE

The Governing Body

THIRD SCHEDULE

The Director



Number 16 of 1992


REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGES ACT 1992

REVISED

Updated to 10 November 2022


AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANISATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL TECHNICAL AND OTHER COLLEGES, TO DEFINE THEIR FUNCTIONS, AND TO MODIFY THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 7 OF THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1944, AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING. [19th July, 1992]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

C1

Functions transferred and references construed (21.10.2020) by Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020), arts. 2, 3 and sch. part 1, 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 this Order are transferred to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

(2) References to the Department of Education and Skills contained in any Act or any instrument made under such Act and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Education and Skills -

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

(b) under the Regulations specified in Part 2 of the Schedule, are transferred to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

(2) References to the Minister for Education and Skills contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

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SCHEDULE

Article 3

Part 1

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Institutes of Technology Acts 1992 to 2006

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