Sport Ireland Act 2015


Number 15 of 2015


SPORT IRELAND ACT 2015

REVISED

Updated to 16 September 2020


This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Sport Ireland Act 2015. 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 15 of 2015


SPORT IRELAND ACT 2015

REVISED

Updated to 16 September 2020


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

This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.

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

Data Protection Act 2018 (7/2018)

All Acts up to and including Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020 (14/2020), enacted 11 September 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

Tourism and Sport (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 356 of 2020)

Sport Ireland Employee Superannuation Scheme 2015 (S.I. No. 684 of 2016)

Sport Ireland Act 2015 (Establishment Day) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 415 of 2015)

All statutory instruments up to and including Tourism and Sport (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 356 of 2020), made 15 September 2020, were considered in the preparation of this revision.


Number 15 of 2015


SPORT IRELAND ACT 2015

REVISED

Updated to 16 September 2020


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Interpretation

3. Expenses of Minister

4. Orders and regulations

5. Repeals

PART 2

Sport Ireland

Chapter 1

Establishment and functions

6. Establishment day

7. Establishment of Sport Ireland

8. Functions of Sport Ireland

9. Additional functions

10. Consultants and advisers

11. Criteria, terms and conditions of assistance

12. Government policy and Minister’s directions

13. Advice and information

14. Advances by Minister to Sport Ireland

15. Strategy statement

16. Accounts and audits

17. Annual report and information to Minister

18. Service agreement

19. Public Private Partnership arrangements

20. Subsidiaries of Sport Ireland and other matters

21. Borrowing by Sport Ireland or subsidiaries

Chapter 2

Chief Executive

22. Chief executive

23. Accountability to Committees of Oireachtas

Chapter 3

Staff and superannuation

24. Staff of Sport Ireland

25. Superannuation of staff

Chapter 4

Property

26. Acquisition of land by Sport Ireland

27. Renewal of leases

28. Amendment of Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999

Chapter 5

The site

29. Development of site

PART 3

Dissolution of Irish Sports Council and National Sports Campus Development Authority

Chapter 1

Dissolution and transfer of functions

30. Dissolution of Council and Authority

31. References to Council or Authority in enactments

32. Transfer of land and other property

33. Transfer of rights and liabilities, and continuation of leases, licences and permissions granted by the Council or the Authority

34. Liability for loss occurring before establishment day

35. Provisions consequent upon the conferral of functions on, or transfer of assets and liabilities to, Sport Ireland

36. Final accounts and annual report of Council

37. Final accounts and annual report of Authority

Chapter 2

Transfer of staff and superannuation

38. Transfer of staff of Council and Authority

39. Superannuation

PART 4

Anti-Doping

40. Definitions for Part 4

41. National anti-doping organisation

42. Anti-doping and Irish Anti-Doping Rules

43. Data protection

44. Persons engaged in sport

45. Continuance of Irish Anti-Doping Rules

SCHEDULE 1

Sport Ireland

SCHEDULE 2

Provisions Relating to Compulsory Acquisition



Number 15 of 2015


SPORT IRELAND ACT 2015

REVISED

Updated to 16 September 2020


An Act to provide for the administration and development of sport in the State; to provide for the establishment of a body to be known in the Irish language as Spórt Éireann or in the English language as Sport Ireland; to provide for the dissolution of the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority; to update the law in relation to doping in sport; and to provide for related matters.

[13 th May, 2015]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

Annotations:

Modifications (not altering text):

C1

Functions transferred and references to “Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport” and “Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport” construed (16.09.2020) by Tourism and Sport (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 356 of 2020), arts. 2 and 3, in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 4-8.

Note change of name of Department and Minister to Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (30.09 2020) by Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 403 of 2020), in effect as per art. 1(2).

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by Article 3 are transferred to the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

(2) References to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport 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 Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport by or under — ...

(c) the Sport Ireland Act 2015 (No. 15 of 2015),

...

are transferred to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

(2) References to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.