[Preamble recites the Trustees Appointment Acts 1850 and 1869, called in this Act “the Act of 1850” and “the Act of 1869” respectively.

Construction and short title.                                                  1. This Act and the Act of 1850, as extended by the Act of 1869, shall be read and construed together as one Act, and this Act may be cited as the Trustees Appointment Act, 1890.

13 & 14 Vict. c. 28.
32 & 33 Vict. c. 26.
Extension of 13 & 14 Vict. c. 28.                                              2. The Act of 1850 shall apply to and include any land acquired by trustees in connexion with any society or body of persons comprising several congregations or other sections or divisions or component parts associated together for any religious purpose, when such land is held in trust for any of the following purposes, namely:—
(1) A place for religious worship:
(2) An endowment or provision for the maintenance of a place of religious worship, or the minister thereof, or provision for expenses connected therewith:
(3) A burial ground:
(4) A place for education and training of students, whether for the ministry or for any other purpose:
(5) A school-house for a Sunday school, day school, or other school:
(6) A residence for a minister or schoolmaster, or for the caretaker of a place of religious worship, or of a school-house or a meeting-house, or offices or other buildings for or in connexion with religious or educational purposes.

Statutory power to appoint trustees made applicable to all cases.              3.—(1) The power for the appointment of new trustees conferred by the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act, 1881, or any other statutory power for the same purpose for the time being in force, shall apply to all land acquired and held on trust for any purpose to which the Act of 1850 or the Act of 1869 or this Act applies.

44 & 45 Vict. c. 41.
(2) Any statutory power for the appointment of new trustees which is for the time being in force may be exercised either by the person or persons and in the manner provided by that statutory power, or by the person or persons and by resolution at a meeting, or in any other mode in which, under the instrument creating the trust or any other instrument, the appointment of a new trustee in place of a deceased trustee can be effected.
(3) Provided that where there is a power to appoint as new trustees only such persons as may be qualified or nominated for election in some special manner, then those persons only who are qualified or nominated in that special manner shall be appointed trustees under the power for the purpose conferred by this Act.

Extension of vesting clause of 13 & 14 Vict. c. 28.                            4. The enactment contained in the Act of 1850, whereby any conveyance, assignment, or assurance of land taken as in that Act mentioned to or in favour of trustees is made effectual to vest the land in their successors in office for the time being and the old continuing trustees (if any) jointly, and if there be no old continuing trustee, then in such successors for the time being wholly, shall apply and be effectual to vest the land in like manner in every case where the appointment of a trustee or trustees is made under any power conferred by this Act, or under any other statutory power for the time being exerciseable with respect to trusts to which this Act applies.

Provision against the concurrent exercise of powers.                           5. Where by force of this Act an appointment of a trustee is capable of being made under a power in any instrument as well as under a statutory power, an appointment of a trustee shall not be made under the statutory power unless and until a period of twelve months at least from the date of the occurrence of the vacancy to be filled up has expired without the vacancy having been filled up.

Appointments of trustees made valid after six months if no proceedings taken.  6.—(1) After the expiration of six months from the date of any instrument whereby any person or persons are purported or appear to be or to have been appointed trustee or trustees for purposes within the meaning of the Act of 1850 or the Act of 1869, or this Act, such person or persons shall, for the purpose of any sale or mortgage, be deemed to be the duly appointed trustee or trustees for the purposes for which the appointment is purported to be or appears to have been made, and every conveyance by way of sale or mortgage which such person or persons may make, or concur in making, shall be as valid and effectual in favour of the purchaser or mortgagee as if made by trustees duly appointed.

(2) This section is not to have effect unless within such six months no proceedings be taken to set aside the appointment or unless any such proceedings which are taken within such six months are abandoned or are not duly prosecuted.

Evidence of due appointment of trustees.                                       7. Where the trustees or the major part of the trustees of any land held on trust for the purposes of the Act of 1850 or the Act of 1869 or this Act, or any other persons present at a meeting duly constituted, are either under the instrument creating the trust or under a statutory power, whether conferred by this Act or otherwise, empowered to appoint trustees by resolution, then a memorandum of the appointment of any trustee which states that the meeting was duly constituted, and which is otherwise made in the form or to the effect, and also subscribed in the manner, directed or provided in the Act of 1850 and the schedule thereto, shall of itself be sufficient and conclusive evidence that the appointment appearing by the memorandum was an appointment duly made, without any evidence of the due constitution of the meeting or of the proceedings thereat.

Extent of Act.                                                                 8. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.


[2nd August, 2020]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
1. (1) There shall stand established on the passing of this Act a Department of State to be known, in the Irish language, as An Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta or, in the English language, as the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
(2) The member of the Government who is in charge of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science shall be known, in the Irish language, as An tAire Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta or, in the English language, as the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
(3) The Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2017 and the Documentary Evidence Act 1925 shall apply to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the member of the Government who is in charge thereof as if that Department of State had been established by section 1 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 .

Amendment of section 3A of Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 1998
2. Section 3A of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 1998 is amended, in subsection (1)(a), by the substitution of “not more than 3 specified holders of the office of Minister of State who regularly attend meetings of the Government” for “not more than 2 specified holders of the office of Minister of State who regularly attend meetings of the Government”.

Short title, collective citation and construction
3. (1) This Act may be cited as the Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020.
(2) The Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2017 and section 1 may be cited together as the Ministers and Secretaries Acts 1924 to 2020 and shall be construed together as one Act.


Customs.
[S. 1 rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.).]
Excise.
Provision as to foreign game.                            2. The provisions of the Game Licences Act, 1860, as amended by the Revenue (No. 2) Act, 1861, relating to excise licences to deal in game and the dealing in and selling of game without an excise licence shall extend and apply to the dealing in and selling of hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, and bustards, imported from foreign parts into Great Britain or Ireland.

23 & 24 Vict. c. 90.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 91.
Stamps.
As to stamp duty on contract notes.                      3. —(1) In lieu of the stamp duty of sixpence now payable under the Stamp Act, 1891, upon a contract note, as defined by section fifty-two of the said Act, for or relating to the sale or purchase of any stock or marketable security of the value of one hundred pounds or upwards there shall be charged the stamp duty of one shilling.

54 & 55 Vict. c. 39.
(2) The duty imposed by this section is to be denoted by an adhesive stamp appropriated to a contract note and may be added to the charge for brokerage or agency.

[S. 4 rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.).]
Income Tax.
[Ss. 5, 6 rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.).]
Appointment of Commissioners of Income Tax in Scotland.  7. Commissioners for the general purposes of the income tax in Scotland may be appointed by the Commissioners of Supply at the meeting to be held annually in pursuance of subsection two of section twelve of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, as well as at any meeting convened for the purpose in conformity with the Income Tax Act, 1842.

52 & 53 Vict. c. 50.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 32.
Short Title.
Short title.                                             8. This Act may be cited as the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1893.


Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Extension of time for taking proceedings under 14 & 15 Vict. c. 93, and validation of decrees, &c.      1.—(1) In the application of subsection four of section ten of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, to a promissory note current or unpaid on the first day of March eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and purporting to have been made under the principal Act, twelve months from the passing of this Act shall be substituted for six months from the time when the cause of complaint shall have arisen.

(2) A decree, order, or warrant of a court of summary jurisdiction pronounced, made, or issued before the passing of this Act in respect of any such promissory note which has not been executed by reason only that the note became payable more than six months before the complaint relating to it was made shall not be a bar to any proceedings for the recovery of the amount due in respect of the note.

Amount due in respect of promissory notes to be recoverable after lapse of six years in certain cases.  2. Proceedings to recover the amount due in respect of a promissory note current or unpaid on the first day of March eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and purporting to have been made under the principal Act, may be taken within twelve months from the passing of this Act, notwithstanding that six years or upwards may have elapsed from the time when the note became payable.

Validation of renewals of promissory notes in certain cases.                                            3. A renewal of a promissory note purporting to have been made under the principal Act and made prior to the passing of this Act shall not be invalid or incapable of being enforced in any court or liable to stamp duty by reason only of the original note having been made in contravention of section thirty-eight of that Act, which prohibits the transaction of the business of a loan society at the places therein specified.

As to amount recoverable in respect of loans.                                                           4.—(1) The total amount recoverable in respect of any loan made under the principal Act shall in no case exceed the amount lent, together with simple interest thereon at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, and in ascertaining the amount due in respect of any such note an account shall be carried back for the entire period from the date of the original loan.

(2) The account provided for in subsection one of section two of the Charitable Loan Societies (Ireland) Act, 1900, in lieu of being issued together with the summons, shall, not less than fourteen days before the summons is issued, be forwarded by a registered letter addressed to the borrower at his last known place of residence, and the said account shall show the allowances made for all sums paid by the borrower in respect of principal, interest, or otherwise.

As to costs.                                                                                5. In awarding costs in any proceedings taken under the principal Act the court shall have regard to any offer of settlement made by the defendant before the proceedings were instituted, and, if of opinion that any such offer was unreasonably refused by the loan society, shall order that the society shall pay costs to the defendant.

Appeal.                                                                                6. In the case of any proceedings taken under the principal Act, the complainant or defendant may, subject to rules of court, appeal to the county court from any decision of a court of summary jurisdiction, and no appeal shall, in the case of such proceedings, lie to a court of quarter sessions.

Official to take account.                                                                               7. In any case where the court may decide to refer the taking of an account, it shall not be competent to refer the taking of the account to any person who is or has been an official or member of any loan society, and the fee for taking the account shall not in any case exceed two shillings and sixpence.

Short title and mode of citation.                                                                       8. This Act may be cited as the Charitable Loan Societies (Ireland) Act, 1906, and shall be construed as one with the Charitable Loan Societies (Ireland) Act, 1900; and the principal Act, the said Act of 1900, and this Act may be cited together as the Charitable Loan Societies (Ireland) Acts, 1843 to 1906.

63 & 64 Vict. c 25.