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Office of Tobacco Control dissolved, functions transferred and references to "Office of Tobacco Control" construed as "Health Service Executive" (1.01.2011) by Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2010 (39/2010), ss. 2, 3, 4(1), in effect as per s. 15(2), subject to transitional provisions in ss. 4(2), (3), 5-12.

Dissolution of Office.

2.— The Office is dissolved.

Transfer of functions of Office.

3.— (1) The administration and business in connection with the performance of any of the functions transferred by subsection (2) are transferred, on the commencement of this Act, to the Executive.

(2) The functions vested in the Office by or under:

(a) the Act of 2002, other than—

(i) section 10(1)(h) (amended by section 75 of the Health Act 2004 ), and

(ii) section 22,

and

(b) the European Communities (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco Products) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 425 of 2003) (amended by the European Communities (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2008) (S.I. No. 255 of 2008)),

shall, on the commencement of this Act, stand transferred to the Executive.

Transitional provisions consequent upon transfer of functions of Office.

4.— (1) References (however expressed) to the Office in any enactment shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to the Executive.

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