[62 Vict.]
Agriculture and Technical Instruction {Ireland).
BILL FOR Establishing a Department of Agriculture and other a.d.
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Industries and Technical Instruction in Ireland, and for other purposes connected therewith.
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 :
5 PAET I.
Department or Agriculture and other Industries and
Technical Instruction.
1.—(1.)
There shall be established a Department of Agriculture Establish-and other Industries and Technical Instruction for Ireland (in mentof 10 this Act referred to as "the Department"), with the Chief ofAgricul-
Secretary as President thereof, and a Vice-President appointed by ture< and removable at the pleasure of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
(2.)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, any power or duty of 15 the Department may be exercised or performed by the President or
the Vice-President, or by any person temporarily appointed by the President to act on behalf of the Vice-President.
(3.)
The office of Vice-President of the Department shall not render the person holding the same incapable of being elected or of 20 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) The Vice-President of the Department shah be ex officio a commissioner on the Board of National Education in Ireland and 25 on the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland and a member of
the Congested Districts Board for Ireland.
2.—(1.)
There shall be transferred to the Department at such Powers and dates respectively as the Lord Lieutenant by Order appoints— A^icidturai
{a.)
The powers and duties of the Lord Lieutenant (whether Department.
30 acting alone or by the advice of the Privy Council), the Chief
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