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

Adjustment Orders.

23.—(1) Where before the appointed day any function of the existing board is exercised in relation to an area the whole of which is not included in one new district, and in order that such function may be duly performed after the appointed day any matter or thing requires to be adjusted and no provision for such adjustment is otherwise made by this Act, the Minister may make an order (in this Act referred to as an adjustment order) adjusting such matter or thing.

(2) An adjustment order may be made either before or after the appointed day, but no adjustment order shall come into operation before the appointed day.

(3) An adjustment order may include provisions of any of the following kinds, that is to say:—

(a) provisions for the joint user of property by two or more boards of health of new districts;

(b) provisions for the performance by the board of health of one new district of functions in relation to another new district on such terms as the Minister thinks reasonable;

(c) provisions requiring the board of health of one new district to make payments to the board of health of another new district;

(d) provisions for the performance of any of the functions of the existing board directly by the council and fixing the area of charge for such performance;

(e) in the case of a power or duty of the existing board to elect or nominate persons to be members of another public body, provisions for the division of such power or duty between two or more boards of health of new districts and for determining the number of such persons to be elected or nominated by each such board respectively;

(f) providing for any other matter or thing which the Minister considers necessary for the due and effective performance after the appointed day of the function of the existing board to which the adjustment order relates.

(4) Before making an adjustment order the Minister shall give to the council and (where the adjustment order is made after the appointed day) to every board of health of a new district affected by such order, not less than one month's notice of his intention to make the adjustment order, and shall consider any representations received by him during such month from the council or any such board.

(5) Every provision validly included in an adjustment order shall, on and after the coming into operation of such adjustment order, have full statutory force and effect.