National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000

Delegation to Agency of claims management function.

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9. —(1) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), the Government may, at the request of a Minister of the Government in whom functions in relation to a State authority are vested, by order delegate to the Agency the management of any claims, or classes of claims, against such an authority.

(b) An order under paragraph (a) may exempt any class of claims against all or any of the State authorities from the delegation effected by the order.

(c) A delegation under paragraph (a) may relate to claims made before the commencement of this Part or the commencement of the order concerned as well as to claims made after the commencement of the order concerned irrespective of whether the latter claims relate to acts, omissions or other matters occurring before or after the commencement of the order concerned or before the commencement of this Part.

(2) (a) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), whenever an order under subsection (1) is in force, the Agency shall, if and in so far as the order so declares, have the following functions:

(i) advising the Minister, whenever he or she so requests, in relation to the management of delegated claims and counterclaims and matters connected therewith,

(ii) advising a relevant Minister of the Government, whenever he or she so requests, of the status and progress of the management of any delegated claim, or class of delegated claims, against, or the management of any counterclaim made by, such Minister of the Government or any other State authority other than the State and the Attorney General,

(iii) advising the Taoiseach, whenever he or she so requests, of the status and progress of the management of any delegated claim, or class of delegated claims, against, or the management of any counterclaim made by, the State or the Attorney General,

(iv) advising a State authority other than the State, a Minister of the Government or the Attorney General, whenever such an authority so requests, of the status and progress of the management of any delegated claim, or class of delegated claims, against, or the management of any counterclaim made by, such an authority.

(b) An order under subsection (1) may contain such ancillary and incidental provisions as the Government consider necessary or expedient for the purposes of the delegation effected by the order.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), the following provisions shall apply in relation to a delegation under this section and a declaration under subsection (2)(a), that is to say:

(a) the Government may at any time by order—

(i) revoke the delegation in whole or in part, or

(ii) provide that all or any of the functions to which the declaration relates shall cease to be performed by the Agency, and, upon the commencement of the order, the functions shall cease to be performed by the Agency,

(b) subject to paragraph (a), the delegation shall operate, so long as it continues in force, to confer on and vest in the Agency the function delegated by the delegation and the declaration shall operate, so long as it continues in force, to confer on and vest in the Agency each function specified in subsection (2)(a),

(c) the function delegated by the delegation or to which the declaration aforesaid relates shall be performed by the Agency subject to any conditions or restrictions specified in the order concerned under this section,

(d) any obligation or liability undertaken by the Agency consequent upon the performance by the Agency of a function to which the delegation or declaration relates shall be of the same force and effect as if the obligation or liability had been undertaken by the State authority concerned,

(e) a function of a State authority delegated by the delegation or to which the declaration relates shall, notwithstanding the delegation or declaration, as the case may be, continue to be vested in the State authority but shall be so vested concurrently with the Agency and so be capable of being performed by either the State authority concerned or the Agency, but shall be performed by the State authority concerned only if, and to the extent that, a direction under subsection (4) applies to it, and

(f) the delegation or declaration shall not remove or derogate from the responsibility of any Minister of the Government to Dáil Éireann or as a member of the Government for the performance of functions of that Minister of the Government thereby delegated or to which the declaration relates.

(4) The Minister may—

(a) at the request of the Taoiseach in the case of delegated claims against the State or the Attorney General, and

(b) at the request of a relevant Minister of the Government and after consultation with the Attorney General in the case of all other delegated claims,

if he or she is of opinion that it is in the interests of the State to do so, give the Agency a direction (which it shall comply with) not to begin, or to discontinue, managing any delegated claim specified in the direction and, following such a direction, the claim concerned shall not be managed or further managed by the Agency.

(5) The Government may by order amend or revoke an order under this section including an order under this subsection.

Annotations

Modifications (not altering text):

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Certain claims deemed to have been delegated under subs. (1)(a) (10.04.2023) by Garda Síochána (Compensation) Act 2022 (33/2022), s. 31(3), S.I. No. 163 of 2023.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000

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(3) The National Treasury Management Agency shall be deemed to have been delegated, under section 9(1)(a) of the Act of 2000, the management of any claims against the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform relating to an application for compensation under the Garda Síochána (Compensation) Acts 1941 to 2003 to which section 5 (1) applies.

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Editorial Notes:

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Power pursuant to section exercised (19.06.2020) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) (No. 2) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 229 of 2020).

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Power pursuant to section exercised (19.06.2020) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 228 of 2020).

E17

Power pursuant to section exercised (30.10.2019) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 571 of 2019).

E18

Power pursuant to subs. (5) exercised (25.07.2019) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Functions) (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 404 of 2019).

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Power pursuant to section exercised (18.07.2017) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 390 of 2017).

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Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (3.06.2015) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 237 of 2015).

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Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (15.10.2013) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. No. 405 of 2013).

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Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (3.04.2012) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. No. 124 of 2012), in effect as per art. 1(2).

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Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (1.01.2010) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Functions) Order 2009 (S.I. No. 586 of 2009), in effect as per art. 1(2).

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Power pursuant to subs. (5) exercised (8.05.2007) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Functions) (Amendment) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 628 of 2007), in effect as per art. 1(2).

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Power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (18.02.2003) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Functions) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 63 of 2003), in effect as per art. 1(2).

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Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (15.04.2014) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 182 of 2014); revoked (3.06.2015) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 237 of 2015), art. 9.

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Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (7.02.2011) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 69 of 2011); revoked (15.04.2014) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 182 of 2014), art. 9.

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Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (1.09.2005) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2005 (S.I. No. 503 of 2005), in effect as per art. 1(2); revoked (7.02.2011) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 69 of 2011), art. 8.

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Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to subs. (1) exercised (3.12.2001) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation and Conferral of Functions) Order 2001 (S.I. No. 531 of 2001), in effect as per art. 1(2); revoked (1.09.2005) by National Treasury Management Agency (Delegation of Claims Management Functions) Order 2005 (S.I. No. 503 of 2005), art. 8, in effect as per art. 1(2).