Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998
Number 34 of 1998
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (ENTERPRISE IRELAND) ACT 1998
REVISED
Updated to 7 January 2020
This Revised Statutory Instrument is an administrative consolidation of Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under 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 the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019 (53/2019), enacted 26 December 2019, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Industrial Development (Amendment) Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 62 of 2020), made 10 March 2020, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Statutory Instrument.
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Number 34 of 1998
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (ENTERPRISE IRELAND) ACT 1998
REVISED
Updated to 7 January 2020
Introduction
This Revised Statutory Instrument presents the text of the Instrument as it has been amended since it was made, and preserves the format in which it was made.
Related legislation
Industrial Development Acts 1986 to 2019: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Industrial Development (Amendment) Act 2019 (46/2019), s. 6(2)). The Acts in this group are:
• Industrial Development Act 1986 (9/1986)
• Industrial Development (Amendment) Act 1991 (30/1991), in so far as it relates to the Industrial Development Act 1986
• Industrial Development Act 1993 (19/1993)
• Industrial Development Act 1995 (28/1995), insofar as it relates to the Industrial Development Acts 1986 to 1993
• Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998(34/1998), other than Part III insofar as it relates to the Legal Metrology Service, s. 35 and Part VIII
• Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003 (30/2003)
• Industrial Development Act 2006 (34/2006)
• Industrial Development Act 2009 (11/2009)
• Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Act 2013 (36/2013), other than ss. 7, 10
• County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Act 2014 (4/2014)
• Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Act 2014 (13/2014), other than Part 7
• Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2019 (8/2019), Part 3
• Industrial Development (Amendment) Act 2019 (46/2019), other than s. 4
Annotations
This Revised Statutory Instrument is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments and previous affecting provisions.
An explanation of how to read annotations is available at
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Material not updated in this revision
Where other legislation is amended by this Statutory Instrument, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.
Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.
A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Industrial Development (Amendment) Act 2019 (46/2019)
• Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2019 (8/2019)
• Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Act 2014 (13/2014)
• County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Act 2014 (4/2014)
• Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Act 2013 (36/2013)
• Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003 (30/2003)
All Acts up to and including Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019 (53/2019), enacted 26 December 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011)
• Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998 (Section 50) Commencement Order 2008 (S.I. No. 530 of 2008)
• Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act, 1998 (Section 40) (Commencement) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 127 of 1999)
• Industrial Development (Enterprise Ireland) Act 1998 (Establishment Day) Order 1998 (S.I. No. 252 of 1998)
All statutory instruments up to and including Industrial Development (Amendment) Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 62 of 2020), made 10 March 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 34 of 1998
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (ENTERPRISE IRELAND) ACT 1998
REVISED
Updated to 7 January 2020
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary and General
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Enterprise Ireland
Dissolution of Forbairt and An Bord Tráchtála and Transitional Provisions
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Transfer of assets and liabilities of Forbairt relating to Legal Metrology Service. |
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Preservation of certain continuing contracts relating to Legal Metrology Service. |
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Grants and Industrial Incentives
Staff of Industrial Development Agency (Ireland)
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Staff of IDA and subsidiaries of IDA . (Repealed) |
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Staff of Forfás seconded to IDA . (Repealed) |
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Superannuation . (Repealed) |
Matters relating to Forfás and IDA.
Amendment of Industrial Development Acts, 1986 to 1995
Matters relating to the Legal Metrology Service and the National Standards Authority of Ireland
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Transfer of staff of Forfás to NSAI. (Repealed) |
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Amendment of National Standards Authority of Ireland Act, 1996. |
Vacancies in staff of Forfás, Enterprise Ireland, IDA or NSAI
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Filling of vacancies in staff of Forfás, Enterprise Ireland, IDA or NSAI. |
Enactments Repealed
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Acts Referred to |
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Companies Acts, 1963 to 1990 |
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1997, No. 2 |
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1986, No. 9 |
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1993, No. 19 |
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1995, No. 28 |
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Industrial Development Acts, 1986 to 1995 |
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1991, No. 30 |
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1996, No. 27 |
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Metrology Acts, 1980 to 1996 |
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1996, No. 28 |
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Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited Acts, 1959 to 1995 |
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Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited (Amendment) Act, 1986 |
1986, No. 20 |
Number 34 of 1998
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (ENTERPRISE IRELAND) ACT 1998
REVISED
Updated to 7 January 2020
AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY, TRADE AND ENTERPRISE AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO ESTABLISH AN AGENCY OF FORFÁS TO BE KNOWN AS ENTERPRISE IRELAND, TO DEFINE ITS FUNCTIONS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF FORBAIRT AND AN BORD TRÁCHTÁLA — THE IRISH TRADE BOARD, TO AMEND THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ACTS, 1986 TO 1995, THE SHANNON FREE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1986, THE METROLOGY ACT, 1996, AND THE NATIONAL STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF IRELAND ACT, 1996, AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS. [13th July, 1998]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: