15ARatification of the Integration and Facilitation Agreement

15A Ratification of the Integration and Facilitation Agreement

(1) The Integration and Facilitation Agreement is ratified and takes effect as if it had been enacted in this Act.

(2) The Minister is deemed to have been authorised, for and on behalf of the State, to enter into the Integration and Facilitation Agreement.

(3) The Government, its Ministers and its public authorities, will do all things necessary and practicable to ensure that the State and all its public authorities facilitate the implementation of the Integration and Facilitation Agreement and to enable the State to discharge its obligations under the Integration and Facilitation Agreement.

(4) Any amount that the State is required to pay under or arising out of the Integration and Facilitation Agreement is payable from the Consolidated Fund which is, to the necessary extent, appropriated accordingly.

S. 15B inserted by No. 50/1998