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Updated to 16 April 2025 (Act No. 2 of 2025 and S.I. No. 141 of 2025)

All effects below are reflected in the most recent Revised Act.

Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924
No. 16 of 1924

Contents

Commencement

SectionCommencement DateCommencement Information
Whole Act 2 June 1924 Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (Commencement) Order 1924 (S.I. No. 4 of 1924), art. 3

Amendments and other effects

How AffectedAffecting Provision
Act included in collectively cited Ministers and Secretaries Acts 36/1939, s. 13(2)
Application of collectively cited Ministers and Secretaries Acts extended 10/2020, s. 1(3)
  18/2017, s. 1(3)
  10/2011, s. 7(3)
  40/1983, s. 2(3)
  27/1977, s. 2(4)
  14/1973, s. 3(4)
  18/1966, s. 2(3)
  17/1959, s. 2(3)
  21/1956, s. 3(4)
  38/1946, ss. 2(4), 3(4)
  36/1939, s. 2(4)
Application of Act restricted 4/1995, ss. 5(1), 24
Application of collectively cited Ministers and Secretaries Acts construed 36/1939, s 4(1)
S. 1(ii), transfer of certain functions under 10/2011, ss. 1(2), 6 & 8
  S. I. No. 294 of 1973
S. 1(vi) repealed 6/1928, s. 2(4)
S. 1(vii) construed 21/1945, s. 7(1)
S. 1(vii) transfer of functions under S.I. No. 383 of 1983
  S.I. No. 9 of 1980
S. 1(viii) repealed 6/1928, s. 3(4)
S. 1(ix) repealed 40/1983, s. 14(c)
S. 1(x) amended 18/1954, s. 9, sch. 1
S. 2(1) declared unconstitutional insofar as it requires the fiat of the Attorney General to be obtained before proceedings in the High Court can be validly instituted against a Minister for State Macauley v Minister for Posts and Telegraphs [1966] 1 IR 345, Kenny J
S. 2 (2) transfer of certain functions under 10/2011, ss. 1(2), 6 & 8
  S. I. No. 294 of 1973
S. 2(3) repealed, regs. ctd. with power to amend or revoke 46/1956, s. 22(1) (2), sch.
S. 2(4) transfer of certain functions under 10/2011, ss. 1(2), 6 & 8
S. 3 repealed 38/1946, s. 5, sch.
S. 4 repealed 38/1938, ss. 2, 3, sch.
S. 6(1) functions delegated 39/2000, ss. 1(2), 10(1)
S. 6(1A) (1B) inserted 18/2005, ss. 2(2), 28
S. 7 repealed  28/1977, ss. 6, 7(3)
S. 7(5) repealed 38/1938, ss. 2, 3, sch.
S. 8 repealed 18/1954, s. 9, sch. 1
S. 9 application extended, words construed 6/1926, s. 3
S. 9 restricted 10/2011, s. 101
  22/1946, s. 6 as substituted by 12/2003, s. 1(2), 6
  22/1942, s. 5(6)
S. 10 transfer of functions S.I. No. 418 of 2011, arts. 1(2), 3 & sch. 1
Ss. 11, 12 repealed 36/1939, ss. 11, 12
S. 14 transfer of functions S.I. No. 418 of 2011, arts. 1(2), 3 & sch. 1
S. 15(1) application extended 24/1925, s. 7(1)
S. 15(4) application extended 24/1925, s. 7(2)
S. 15(4) reference construed 18/1954, s. 304(1)
S. 17 references construed 28/1977, ss. 3, 7(3)
S. 17(c) amended 18/1954, s. 304(2)
Sch. part 1 amended 43/2001, ss. 2, 36
  24/1983, s. 7 and sch. 3 part 1
Sch. part 4 amended 28/1971, s. 30
Sch. part 5 repealed 6/1928, s. 2(4)
Sch. part 7 repealed 6/1928, s. 3(4)
Sch. part 8 repealed 40/1983, s. 14(c)

SIs made under the Act

SectionSIs made under the Act
Whole Act Money Order Amendment (No. 14) Regulations 1951 (S.I. No. 295 of 1951)
  Postal Order (Inland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1951 (S.I. No. 294 of 1951)
  Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 6) Warrant 1938 (S.I. No. 114 of 1938)
  Inland Post Amendment (No. 33) Warrant 1938 (S.I. No. 113 of 1938)
  Inland Post Amendment (No 31) Warrant 1936 (S.I. No. 203 of 1936)
  Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 5) Warrant 1934 (S.I. No. 185 of 1934)
  Money Order Amendment (No. 13) Regulations 1929 (S.I. No. 14 of 1929)
  Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant 1928 (S.I. No. 31 of 1928)
  Inland Post Amendment (No. 30) Warrant 1928 (S.I. No. 30 of 1928)
  Inland Post Amendment (No. 29) Warrant 1928 (S.I. No. 9 of 1928)
  Money Order Amendment (No. 12) Regulations 1926 (S.I. No. 71 of 1926)
  Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 3) Warrant 1926 (S.I. No. 69 of 1926)
  Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 3) Warrant 1926 (S.I. No. 68 of 1926)
  Inland Post Amendment (No. 28) Warrant 1925 (S.I. No. 64 of 1925)
  Inland Post Amendment (No. 27) Warrant 1925 (S.I. No. 25 of 1925)
  Inland Post Amendment (No. 26) Warrant 1924 (S.I. No. 33 of 1924)
  Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 2) Warrant 1924 (S.I. No. 28 of 1924)
  Inland Post Amendment (No. 25) Warrant 1924 (S.I. No. 27 of 1924)
S. 1(iv) Burial Ground (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 144 of 2013)
S. 2(3) Civil Service (Emergency Bonus) Regulations (S.I. No. 345 of 1945)
  Civil Service (Bonus) Regulations 1944 (S.I. No. 364 of 1944)
  Civil Service (Emergency Bonus) Regulations 1944 (S.I. No. 43 of 1944)
  Civil Service (Emergency Bonus) Regulations 1943 (S.I. No. 1 of 1943)
  Civil Service (Stabilisation of Bonus) (Amendment) Regulations 1942 (S.I. No. 258 of 1942)
  Civil Service (Stabilisation of Bonus) Regulations 1940 (S.I. No. 177 of 1940)
S. 9 Royal Hospital Kilmainham (Dissolution of Governors and Revocation of Charters) Order 1955 (S.I. No. 260 of 1955)
  Irish Insurance Commissioners (Transfer of Functions) Order 1933 (S.I. No. 1 of 1933)
  General Prisons Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 1928 (S.I. No. 79 of 1928)
  Irish Land Commission (Fisheries and Rural Industries) (Transfer of Functions) Order 1928 (S.I. No. 60 of 1928)
  Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction For Ireland (Education) (Transfer of Functions) Order 1927 (S.I. No. 101 of 1927)
  Saorstát Eireann Forestry Commissioners (Transfer of Functions) Order 1927 (S.I. No. 69 of 1927)
  Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction For Ireland (Fisheries) (Transfer of Functions) Order 1927 (S.I. No. 5 of 1927)
  Commissioners of Education in Ireland (Transfer of Functions) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 22 of 1925)
  Electricity Commissioners (Transfer of Functions) Order 1924 (S.I. No. 7 of 1924)
S. 9(1) National Education Commissioners (Transfer of Functions) Order 1935 (S.I. No. 264 of 1935)
  Intermediate Education Commissioners (Transfer of Functions) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 17 of 1925)
S. 9(2) Heritage (Transfer of Functions of Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland) Order, 1996 (S.I. No. 332 of 1996)
  Heritage (Transfer of Functions of Commissioners of Public Works) Order, 1996 (S.I. No. 61 of 1996)
S. 10 Sea Fisheries Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1941 (S.I. No. 276 of 1941)
  National School Teachers' Pension Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1934 (S.I. No. 43 of 1934)
  General Cattle Diseases Fund (Cattle Pleuro-Pneumonia Account) (Winding-Up) Order 1928 (S.I. No. 11 of 1928)
  Forestry Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1927 (S.I. No. 70 of 1927)
  Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Winding-Up of a Fund For Congested Districts) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 21 of 1925)
  The Endowment Fund (Final Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 20 of 1925)
  The Intermediate Education Commissioners (Statutory Funds Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 18 of 1925)
  The Development Fund (Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 15 of 1925)
  Endowment Fund (Second Apportionment and Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 13 of 1925)
  Endowment Fund (First Apportionment and Winding-Up) Order 1925 (S.I. No. 12 of 1925)
S. 11 Minister For Industry and Commerce (Agency) Order 1939 (S.I. No. 194 of 1939)
  Minister For Finance (Agency) Order 1939 (S.I. No. 184 of 1939)
  Minister For Local Government and Public Health (Agency) (No. 2) Order 1939 (S.I. No. 132 of 1939)
  Minister For Local Government and Public Health (Agency) Order 1939 (S.I. No. 115 of 1939)
  Minister for Agriculture (Agency) Order 1932 (S.I. No. 57 of 1932)
  Minister for Industry and Commerce (Agency) Order 1932 (S.I. No. 56 of 1932)
  Minister for Local Government and Public Health (Agency) Order 1932 (S.I. No. 55 of 1932)
S. 12(2) Meteorological Services (Re-Distribution of Public Services) Order 1936 (S.I. No. 276 of 1936)
  Forestry (Re-Distribution of Public Services) Consequential Order 1934 (S.I. No. 117 of 1934)
  Fisheries (Re-Distribution of Public Services) Order 1934 (S.I. No. 40 of 1934)
  Forestry (Re-Distribution of Public Services Order 1933 (S.I. No. 158 of 1933)
  Geological Survey (Re-Distribution of Public Services) Order 1928 (S.I. No. 4 of 1928)
  The Irish Land Commission (Re-Distribution of Public Services) Order 1927 (S.I. No. 55 of 1927)
  The Registrar of Friendly Societies (Re-Distribution of Public Services) Order 1926 (S.I. No. 12 of 1926)

*S. 2(1) invalid having regard to the provisions of the Constitution: Macauley v Minister for Posts & Telegraphs [1966] IR 345