Sustainable Energy Act 2002
Number 2 of 2002
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ACT 2002
REVISED
Updated to 1 May 2024
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Sustainable Energy Act 2002. 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 the Court Proceedings (Delays) Act 2024 (12/2024), enacted 1 May 2024, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Statistics (Business Expenditure on Research and Development Survey) Order 2024 (S.I. No. 190 of 2024), made 2 May 2024, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 2 of 2002
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ACT 2002
REVISED
Updated to 1 May 2024
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Power to establish subsidiaries.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Chairperson of Board of Authority.
12.
Meetings and procedure of Board of Authority.
13.
14.
Membership of either House of Oireachtas, European Parliament or local authority.
15.
16.
17.
Superannuation of Chief Executive and staff.
18.
19.
20.
21.
Transfer of property and rights and liabilities.
22.
23.
24.
Annual report and accounts of Authority.
25.
Information to Minister and Oireachtas on performance of functions.
26.
27.
28.
Power to accept subscriptions and donations.
29.
Power to engage consultants and advisers and to enter into contracts.
30.
31.
Amendment of section 23 of Gas Act, 1976.
32.
Amendment of section 39 of Electricity Regulation Act, 1999 (Public Service Obligations).
33.
Insertion of Schedule 2 to Electricity Regulation Act, 1999.
Acts Referred To
Companies Act, 1963
Companies Acts, 1963 to 2001
Electricity Regulation Act, 1999
European Parliament Elections Act, 1997
Freedom of Information Act, 1997
Gas Act, 1976
Gas (Amendment) Act, 2000
Number 2 of 2002
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ACT 2002
REVISED
Updated to 1 May 2024
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BODY TO BE KNOWN AS FUINNEAMH INMHARTHANA ÉIREANN — ÚDARÁS FUINNIMH INMHARTHANA NA hÉIREANN OR IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY IRELAND — THE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND; TO AMEND THE GAS ACT, 1976, TO AMEND THE ELECTRICITY REGULATION ACT, 1999, AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH. [27th February, 2002]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions transferred and “Department of Public Enterprise” and “Minister for Public Enterprise” construed (18.06.2002) by Communications, Energy and Geological Survey of Ireland (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2002 (S.I. No. 300 of 2002), arts. 3, 4 and sch. part 1, in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 5-9.
3. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by Article 4 of this Order are transferred to the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources.
(2) References to the Department of Public Enterprise contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) of this Article shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources.
4. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Public Enterprise -
(a) by or under any of the enactments or the provisions of the enactments mentioned in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order,
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are transferred to the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources.
(2) References to the Minister for Public Enterprise contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder 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 the Marine and Natural Resources.
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SCHEDULE
PART 1.
Enactments and provisions of enactments, functions under which are transferred from the Minister for Public Enterprise to the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources.
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Sustainable Energy Act 2002 (No. 2 of 2002)
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