Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This amendment to the wording of subsections (1) and (2) of section 71 is intended to provide greater clarity and legal certainty in the transfer of the functions of the Employment Appeals Tribunal, on its dissolution, to the workplace relations commission and the Labour Court, respectively. Subsection (1) clarifies that any statutory act of tribunal which remains incomplete on the date of the tribunal's dissolution can be carried to completion by the relevant transferee body. Subsection (2) provides for the continued efficacy of instruments and documents made by the tribunal prior to its dissolution; such instruments and documents will be deemed to have been made by the relevant transferee body.