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Version status: Amended
Version date: 29 November 2023 - onwards
Version 3 of 3

3. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act (interpretation)

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 30 November 2022 by Seanad Éireann

Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1) -

(a) in the definition of “officer”, in paragraph (a), by the insertion of “a member of the appellate body referred to in section 37,” after “a member of the board oversight committee,”,

(b) by the insertion of the following definitions:

"'Act of 2014' means the Companies Act 2014;

'company' means a company formed and registered under the Act of 2014 or an existing company within the meaning of that Act;

'corporate credit union' means a credit union registered pursuant to section 6(6);

'public body' means -

(a) a Department of State,

(b) an entity established by or under any enactment (other than the Act of 2014 or a former enactment relating to companies within the meaning of section 5 of that Act),

(c) any other entity established (other than under the Act of 2014 or a former enactment relating to companies within the meaning of section 5 of that Act) or appointed by the Government or a Minister of the Government, including an entity established (other than under the Act of 2014 or a former enactment relating to companies within the meaning of section 5 of that Act) by a Minister of the Government under any scheme,

(d) a company a majority of the shares in which are held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government,