Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

This is a drafting amendment which will avoid repetition of the provision already included in section 7(2)(b) of the Bill.

Amendment agreed to.

Section 40, as amended, agreed to.

Sections 41 and 42 agreed to.

Amendment No. 41 not moved.

Section 43 agreed to.

NEW SECTION.

Government amendment No. 42:

In page 25, before the Schedule, to insert the following new section:

"PART 4

AMENDMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS REGULATION ACT, 2002

44.The Communications Regulation Act, 2002 is amended –

(a)in section 2(1), by substituting for the definition of 'Minister' the following definition:

'"Minister" means Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources;',

(b) in section 3(3), by substituting 'done under the order or regulation' for 'done under the order',

(c) in section 51, by deleting subsection (2) and consequently renumbering subsection (1) of that section as section 51, and

(d) in Schedule 1, Part 1–

(i) opposite the mention in column (2) of 'Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926' –

(I) by substituting in column (3) for 'Section 3(6) (inserted by section 11(c) of Act No. 5 of 1972)' the following:

'Section 3(3B), (3C) (inserted by section 12 of Act No. 19 of 1988) and (6) (inserted by section 11(c) of Act No. 5 of 1972)', and

(II) by inserting in column (3) 'Section 12' above the mention of 'Section 13',

and