PART 1

Preliminary and General

1 .— This Act may be cited as the National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006.

2 .— (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“ Authority ” means National Sports Campus Development Authority established by section 6 ;

“Chief Executive” has the meaning assigned to it by section 13 ;

“a committee” means a committee established under section 11 ;

“ company” has the meaning it has in the Companies Act 1963 ;

“ the Company” means Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Limited;

“ the establishment day ” means the day appointed under section 5 ;

“financial year of the Authority” means a period of 12 months ending on 31 December in any year and, in the case of the first financial year of the Authority, means the period commencing on the establishment day and ending on 31 December in the year in which the establishment day falls;

“ Minister ” means Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism;

“National Aquatic Centre” means the land owned by the Company commonly known as the National Aquatic Centre situated at Deanstown, in the county of Dublin;

“the site” means—

(a) the National Aquatic Centre,

(b) the land owned by the Minister for Agriculture and Food and described in Schedule 1 , and

(c) any land acquired by the Authority under section 6 or 31 ;

“a subsidiary” means a subsidiary (within the meaning of section 155 of the Companies Act 1963 ) of the Authority.

(2) In this Act, references to a member, or the members, of the staff of the Authority shall, except in sections 14 , 15 and 18 , include references to the Chief Executive.

3 .— Every order (other than an order made under section 5 or an acquisition order, or a vesting order, within the meaning of Schedule 2 ) and regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order or regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

4 .— The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas and the expenses incurred by the Minister for Finance in the administration of this Act shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.