Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Power of urban authority to appoint committee.

5. Every urban authority may from time to time appoint out of their own number so many persons as they may think fit for any purposes of this Act which, in the opinion of such authority, would be better regulated and managed by means of a committee or committees: Provided, that a committee so appointed shall in no case be authorised to borrow any money, to make any rate, or to enter into any contract, and shall be subject to any regulations and restrictions which may be imposed by the authority that formed it.