Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926

Definitions.

1.—(1) In this Act the expression “local authority” means and includes the following bodies and persons that is to say:—

(a) the council of a county, county borough, borough, urban district, or rural district, a board of guardians, a port sanitary authority, and the commissioners of a town, and

(b) any body, persons, or person established or appointed by or under a statute to perform the functions or any of the functions of any such council, board, or commissioners, and

(c) a committee or joint committee of or appointed by any one or more of such councils, boards, commissioners, bodies, or persons, and

(d) a school attendance committee appointed under the School Attendance Act, 1926 (No. 17 of 1926).

(2) In this Act the expression “the Minister”—

(a) in relation to a committee or joint committee appointed by one or more councils of counties or urban districts under the Technical Instruction Acts, 1889 and 1891 or under section 14 of the Agriculture and Technical Instruction Act, 1899 to perform duties for the purposes of agriculture and other rural industries or in relation to any officer or servant appointed by any such committee or joint committee, means the Minister for Lands and Agriculture, and

(b) in relation to a committee or joint committee appointed by one or more councils of counties or urban districts under the Acts or section aforesaid to perform duties in connection with technical instruction or in relation to any officer or servant appointed by any such committee or joint committee, means the Minister for Education, and

(c) in relation to a school attendance committee or any officer appointed by any such committee, means the Minister for Education, and

(d) in relation to any other local authority or any officer appointed by any such other local authority, means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.