Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act 1899
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1899 c. 50 |
Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899
(62 & 63 Vict.) CHAPTER 50.
An Act for establishing a Department of Agriculture and other Industries and Technical Instruction in Ireland, and for other purposes connected therewith.
[9th August 1899]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
PART I.
Technical Instruction.Department of Agriculture and other Industries and
1 Establishment of Department of Agriculture.
(1)1.—(1.) There shall be established a Department of Agriculture and other Industries and Technical Instruction for Ireland (in this Act referred to as ‘the Department’), with the Chief Secretary as President thereof, and a Vice-President appointed by and removable at the pleasure of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
(2) (2.) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any power or duty of the Department may be exercised or performed by the President or the Vice-President, or by any person appointed by the President to act on behalf of the Vice-President during the temporary absence of the Vice-President.
(3) (3.) The office of Vice-President of the Department shall not render the person holding the same incapable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a member of Parliament, or avoid his election if returned, or render him liable to any penalty for sitting or voting in Parliament.
(4) (4.) The Vice-President of the Department shall be ex officio a member of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland.
2 Powers and duties of Agricultural Department.
(1)2.—(1.) There shall be transferred to the Department at such dates respectively as the Lord Lieutenant by Order appoints—
(a. ) The powers and duties of the Lord Lieutenant (whether acting alone or by the advice of the Privy Council), the Chief Secretary and the Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 and 1896;
(b. ) The powers and duties of the Lord Lieutenant acting by the advice of the Privy Council under the Destructive Insects Act, 1877 , and the Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893 ;
(c .) The powers and duties of the Registrar-General for Ireland and the Irish Land Commission , with reference to the collection and publication of statistics relating to agriculture, and of returns of average prices of agricultural produce;
(d. ) The powers and duties of the Irish Land Commission under the Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1887 and 1891 ;
(e. ) The administration of the grant for science and art in Ireland;
(f. ) The administration of the grant in aid of technical instruction, as defined by the Technical Instruction Act, 1889 , in Ireland;
(g. ) The powers and duties of the Department of Science and Art in relation to any public building or institution in Ireland under their control, and also any property in Ireland held by or for the purposes of that Department;
(h. ) The powers and duties of the Commissioners of National Education in connexion with the Albert Institution and the Munster Institution, and also all property held by those Commissioners for the purposes of the said institutions; and
(i. ) The powers and duties of the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries.
(2) (2.) A copy of every Order of the Lord Lieutenant under this section shall be published in the Dublin Gazette.
3 Provision with reference to Inspectors of Fisheries.
(1)3.—(1.) As from the date of the transfer in pursuance of this Act to the Department of the powers and duties of the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries, those Inspectors shall be transferred and attached to the Department as officers thereof, and the Department shall, so long as any two of them continue to hold office, assign to one of them the performance, in the name of the Department, of the duties of those Inspectors under the enactments of the Fisheries (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1898, specified in the First Schedule to this Act, and such other (if any) of the duties so transferred as may be declared by an Order in Council of the Lord Lieutenant to partake of a judicial character, and shall delegate to such Inspector such of the powers so transferred as are necessary for the performance of the duties so assigned.
(2) (2.) So soon as one only of those Inspectors continues to hold office the Department shall assign to him or to one of the other officers of the Department the like performance of the said duties, and shall delegate to such Inspector or officer such powers as aforesaid.
(3) (3.) Nothing in this Act shall affect any provision in the Fisheries (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1898, conferring a right of appeal in respect of any byelaw, rule, regulation, order, award, determination, judgment, decision, or definition under those Acts, or requiring the confirmation thereof.
(4) (4.) Anything in the Fisheries (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1898, requiring any act to be done or application to be heard by more than one Inspector shall be repealed.
(5) (5.) Rules for the purposes of this section shall be made by the Department subject to the approval of the Lord Chancellor.
4 Power to transfer other powers of Government Departments.
(1)4.—(1.) The Lord Lieutenant may, with the consent of the Treasury, by Order in Council, transfer to the Department such powers and duties exercised and performed by any Government Department in Ireland as are conferred or imposed by or in pursuance of any Act, and appear to him to be of an administrative character, and to relate to any powers and duties similar or analogous to those by this Act transferred to the Department.
(2) (2.) Where any powers and duties proposed to be transferred by an Order under this section are exercised and performed by any Department, not being a Department of the Irish Government, the Order shall not be made without the consent of such first-mentioned Department.
5 Powers of Department in relation to inquiries experiments, &c.
5. The Department may make, or cause to be made, or aid in making, such inquiries, experiments, and research, and collect, or aid in collecting, such information as they may think important ex for the purposes of agriculture and other rural industries
6 Staff and remuneration and expenses.
(1)6.—(1.) The Department may, with the consent of the Lord Lieutenant and the Treasury, appoint or employ a secretary, two assistant secretaries, one in respect of agriculture and one in respect of technical instruction, and such inspectors, instructors, officers, and servants as the Department may require.
(2) (2.) There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament to the Vice-President of the Department the annual salary of one thousand two hundred pounds, together with a residential allowance not exceeding the annual sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, and to the secretary, assistant secretaries, inspectors, officers, and servants of the Department such salaries or remuneration as the Department, with the sanction of the Treasury, may determine.
(3) (3.) All expenses incurred by the Department in the exercise of their powers or the performance of their duties under this Part of this Act, other than expenses incurred in relation to the Albert Institution and the Munster Institution, shall, save so far as they are otherwise provided for under any Act, to such amount as may be sanctioned by the Treasury, be paid out of money provided by Parliament.
PART II.
Technical Instruction, and Financial Provisions.Consultative Council, Agricultural Board And Board of
7 Establishment of Council of Agriculture, Agricultural Board, and Board of Technical Instruction.
7. For the purpose of assisting the Department in carrying out the objects of this Act there shall be established—
8 Constitution of Council of Agriculture.
(1) The Council of Agriculture shall consist of the following members:—
(a. ) Two persons to be appointed by the county council of each county (other than a county borough) in each province; and
(b. ) A number of persons resident in each province equal to the number of counties (exclusive of county boroughs) in the province, to be appointed by the Department with due regain to the representation on the council of any agricultural or industrial organisation in the province.
(2) (2.) For the purposes of this section the county of Cork shall be regarded as two counties, and four persons shall be appointed by the council of that county.
(3) (3.) The members representing each province shall constitute separate committees on the Council and shall be styled the provincial committees of the respective provinces.
9 Constitution of Agricultural Board.
9. The Agricultural Board shall consist of the following members:—
10 Constitution of Board of Technical Instruction.
10. The Board of Technical Instruction...
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