Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 2nd December, 2016.

The Government, on the request of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1977 (No. 28 of 1977), hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2016.

2. The powers (other than the power to prosecute an offence) and duties of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine conferred on him—

(a) by or under the enactments specified in Part 1 of the Schedule,

(b) under the Regulations made under section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972) specified in Part 2 of the Schedule,

and

(c) under section 36 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (No. 15 of 2013) insofar as that section relates to bees,

are delegated to Andrew Doyle, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

SCHEDULE

Part 1

Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Acts 1930 to 1988

Pigs and Bacon Acts 1935 to 1988

Noxious Weeds Act 1936 (No. 38 of 1936)

Forestry Acts 1946 to 2009

Agricultural Produce (Meat) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954 (No. 33 of 1954)

Fertilisers, Feeding Stuffs and Mineral Mixtures Act 1955 (No. 8 of 1955)

Destructive Insects and Pests Acts 1958 and 1991

Greyhound Industry Acts 1958 and 1993

Agricultural Produce (Meat) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1978 (No. 13 of 1978)

Milk (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 (No. 24 of 1979)

Plant Varieties (Proprietary Rights) Acts 1980 and 1998

Abattoirs Act 1988 (No. 8 of 1988)

Animal Remedies Act 1993 (No. 23 of 1993)

Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 (No. 29 of 2011)

Part 2

European Communities (Animal Remedies and Medicated Feedingstuffs) Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 176 of 1994 )

European Communities (Trade in Certain Animal Products) Regulations 1996 ( S.I. No. 102 of 1996 )

European Communities (Veterinary Checks on Products Imported From Third Countries) Regulations 2000 ( S.I. No. 292 of 2000 )

European Communities (Beet Seed) Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 142 of 2001 )

European Communities (Vegetable Seeds) Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 306 of 2001 )

European Communities (Seed of Fodder Plants) Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 198 of 2002 )

European Communities (National Catalogue of Agricultural Plant Varieties) Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 525 of 2002 )

European Communities (Marketing of Forest Reproductive Material) Regulations 2002 ( S.I. No. 618 of 2002 )

European Communities (Seed of Oil Plants and Fibre Plants) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 280 of 2003 )

European Communities (Veterinary Checks on Fish and Fishery Products Imported from Third Countries) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 548 of 2003 )

European Communities (Organic Farming) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No. 112 of 2004 )

European Communities (Monitoring of Zoonoses) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No. 154 of 2004 )

European Communities (Registration of Importer of Animal Products) Regulations ( S.I. No. 269 of 2004 )

European Communities (Control of Salmonella in Breeding Flocks of Domestic Fowl) Regulations 2006 ( S.I. No. 706 of 2006 )

European Communities (Animal Remedies) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 786 of 2007 )

European Communities (Control of Salmonella in Laying Flocks of Domestic Fowl) Regulations 2008 ( S.I. No. 247 of 2008 )

European Communities (Control of salmonella in broilers) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 64 of 2009 )

European Communities (Marketing Standards for Eggs) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 140 of 2009 )

European Communities (Control of Animal Remedies and their Residues) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 183 of 2009 )

European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulations 2009 ( S.I. No. 432 of 2009 )

European Communities (Control of salmonella in turkeys) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 99 of 2010 )

European Communities (Marketing Standards for Poultrymeat) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 328 of 2010 )

European Communities (Forest Consent and Assessment) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 558 of 2010 )

European Communities (Poultry and Hatching Eggs) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 564 of 2010 )

European Communities (Marketing of Fruit Plant Propagating Material) Regulations 2011 ( S.I. No. 384 of 2011 )

European Communities (Official Controls on the Import of Food of Non-Animal Origin for Pesticide Residues) Regulations 2011 ( S.I. No. 426 of 2011 )

European Communities (Aerial Fertilisation) (Forestry) Regulations 2012 ( S.I. No. 125 of 2012 )

European Union (Cereal Seeds) Regulations 2013 ( S.I. No. 217 of 2013 )

European Union (Marketing of Vegetable Propagating and Planting Material, Other than Seed) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 152 of 2014 )

European Union (Animal By-Products) Regulations 2014 ( S.I. No. 187 of 2014 )

European Union (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 532 of 2015 )

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

29 November 2016.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order delegates to Andrew Doyle T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine the powers and duties of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine under the Acts and Instruments specified in the Order.