Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 47:

In page 55, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:“(2) Subject to this Act, references (however expressed) to a vocational education committee in any Act passed before the establishment day, or in any instrument made before that day under an Act, shall be read as references to an education and training board, unless the context otherwise requires.”.

This is a technical provision. Schedule 6, introduced on Committee Stage, makes amendments to all non-VEC legislation referring to VECs. Those references will be changed to references to education and training boards. However, as an insurance policy, the drafting office has advised the inclusion of this provision also, which will provide that any reference to a VEC in an Act or a statutory instrument will now be read as a reference to an education and training board.

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