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
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
Institutes of Technology Acts 1992 to 2006: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Institutes of Technology Act 2006 (25/2006), s. 1(4)). The Acts in this group are:
• Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 (16/1992)
• Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act 1994 (29/1994)
• Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act 1999 (20/1999)
• Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 (26/1999), Part IV Chapter IV and ss. 1, 2 in so far as they relate to this chapter (Repealed)
• Vocational Education (Amendment) Act 2001 23/2001, s. 37 (Repealed)
• Institutes of Technology Act 2006 (25/2006), Part 2 (ss. 3-28)
Annotations
This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.
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Material not updated in this revision
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Higher Education Authority Act 2022 (31/2022)
• Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019 (32/2019)
• Technological Universities Act 2018 (3/2018)
• Education and Training Boards Act 2013 (11/2013)
• Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 (28/2012)
• Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 (10/2011)
• Institutes of Technology Act 2006 (25/2006)
• Vocational Education (Amendment) Act 2001 (23/2001)
• Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 (26/1999)
• Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act 1999 (20/1999)
• Finance Act 1998 (3/1998)
• Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act 1994 (29/1994)
All Acts up to and including Consumer Rights Act 2022 (37/2022), enacted 7 November 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 451 of 2020)
• Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 (Change of Name of College) Order 1998 (S.I. No. 19 of 1998)
• Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 (Change of Name of College) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 512 of 1997)
• Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 199 of 1997)
• Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 (Amendment) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 149 of 1997)
• Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 (Commencement) Order 1992 (S.I. No. 337 of 1992)
• Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Control Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. No. 311 of 1992)
All statutory instruments up to and including Higher Education Authority Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2022 (S.I. No. 554 of 2022), made 8 November 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 16 of 1992
REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGES ACT 1992
REVISED
Updated to 10 November 2022
The Colleges
The Governing Body
The Director
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Acts Referred to |
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1977, No. 30 |
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1984, No. 6 |
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Finance Act, 1895 |
1895, c. 16 |
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1980, No. 8 |
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1930, No. 29 |
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1944, No. 9 |
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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):
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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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