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Number 34 of 1971


EXPORT PROMOTION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1971


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions.

2.

Increase of non-repayable grants to Board.

3.

Assistance by Board of certain design and planning services.

4.

Short title and collective citation.


Acts Referred to

Export Promotion (Amendment) Act, 1963

1963, No. 20

Export Promotion Act, 1959

1959, No. 20

Export Promotion (Amendment) Act, 1969

1969, No. 4

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Number 34 of 1971


EXPORT PROMOTION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1971


AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE EXPORT PROMOTION ACTS, 1959 TO 1969. [15th December, 1971]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Definitions.

1. —In this Act—

the Board” means Córas Tráchtála;

the Minister” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Increase of non-repayable grants to Board.

2. —The aggregate amount of the sums which the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may pay to the Board for the purpose of enabling it to exercise or perform its functions (excluding any sum paid to it under section 4 of the Export Promotion (Amendment) Act, 1963 ) shall not exceed fifteen million pounds and, accordingly, section 16 (1) of the Export Promotion Act, 1959 , shall be construed as if that sum were substituted for the sum mentioned therein.

Assistance by Board of certain design and planning services.

3. —(1) The Board may assist quantity surveyors practising in the State in relation to the rendering of services to which section 3 (1) of the Export Promotion (Amendment) Act, 1969 , applies.

(2) The Board shall have all such powers as are necessary for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

Short title and collective citation.

4. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Export Promotion (Amendment) Act, 1971.

(2) The Export Promotion Acts, 1959 to 1969, and this Act may be cited together as the Export Promotion Acts, 1959 to 1971.