Local Government (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1934

Effect of a dividing Order.

8.—Whenever the Minister has made a dividing order the following provisions shall, on and from the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of such order, have effect in relation to the county to which such order relates, that is to say:

(a) the area of such county which is, at the date of such order, a rural sanitary district shall cease to be a rural sanitary district;

(b) there shall be constituted by virtue of such order in such county the number of rural sanitary districts specified in such order, and each such rural sanitary district shall contain the portion of such county specified in that behalf in such order;

(c) the council of such county shall be the sanitary authority for each of the said rural sanitary districts so constituted;

(d) each of the said rural sanitary districts shall be a county health district within the meaning of the Principal Acts and shall be called by the name of the “county Health District of_____________” (with the addition of the name of the county and such distinguishing name as the Minister shall direct);

(e) subject to the provisions of this Act, the Principal Acts shall apply and have effect in and in relation to every such rural sanitary district and county health district as if such district had been constituted by an order made under sub-section (2) of section 9 of the Act of 1925;

(f) if there is a board of public health in and for such county at the date of such order, such board shall be dissolved and cease to exist.