PT.1 S.1[NO. 30.] Freedom of Information Act 2014. [2014.] (4) Section 8 shall come into operation 12 months from enactment or on such earlier day or days as the Minister may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision of that section and different days may be so appointed for different purposes or different provisions. (5) In this section “enactment” means the date of enactment of this Act. Interpretation 2. (1) In this Act— “Act of 1997” means the Freedom of Information Act 1997; “commencement of this Act” means the time at which this Act comes into operation in relation to the FOI body concerned; “Commissioner” means the office of Information Commissioner continued in being by section 43 or the holder of that office, as the case may be; “determined” means determined by the Minister and, in relation to a form, means determined having had appropriate regard to the needs of requesters; “director” means a director (within the meaning of the Companies Acts) but includes in the case of— (a) a local authority, (b) the Health Service Executive, (c) a public body that is not a company (within the meaning of the Companies Acts), or (d) a prescribed body, a person who is a member of any board or other body that controls, manages or administers an entity mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d); “effective date” means: (a) in the case of an entity that immediately prior to enactment of this Act was a public body within the meaning of the Act of 1997 (other than the Health Service Executive or a local authority), 21 April 1998; (b) in the case of the Health Service Executive or a local authority, 21 October 1998; (c) in the case of an entity that immediately prior to enactment of this Act, was not a public body within the meaning of the Act of 1997, but is a public body within the meaning of this Act, 21 April 2008, unless provision is made to the contrary by order under section 6; (d) in the case of a prescribed body, the date that the order prescribing the body under section 7(1) is made, other than where a later date is specified in that order; “electronic device” includes any device which uses any electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, biometric or photonic means, or other forms of related technology, or any combination thereof, to store or transmit data, or both store and 10