The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following Part after Part 6:

"Part 6A Agreements and appointments

88A. Definitions - Part 6A

In this Part -

'agreement' has the meaning assigned to it by section 88C(1);

'appointment' has the meaning assigned to it by section 88C(3);

'public body' means -

(a) a Department of State,

(b) a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2001,

(c) the Health Service Executive,

(d) any other person, body or organisation established -

(i) by or under an enactment (other than the Act of 2014),

(ii) by any scheme administered by a Minister of the Government, or

(iii) under the Act of 2014 or a former enactment relating to companies within the meaning of section 5 of that Act, in pursuance of powers conferred by or under another enactment and financed wholly or partly by means of money provided, or loans made or guaranteed, by a Minister of the Government or the issue of shares held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government,

or

(e) any other person, body, organisation or group that the Minister may prescribe to be a public body for the purposes of this Part;