Cork Fever Hospital Act, 1935

Miscellaneous provisions in relation to officers of the Board.

26.—(1) The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, remove from office any officer of the Board.

(2) The Minister may at any time remove from office any officer of the Board.

(3) The Board shall be deemed to be a local authority within the meaning of the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 29 of 1926), and for that purpose the expression “the Minister” in that Act shall, in relation to the Board, mean the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

(4) The Board shall be deemed to be a local body within the meaning of Part IV of the Act of 1925, as amended by the Act of 1927, and Part IV of the Act of 1925, so amended, shall apply to the Board and the officers of the Board accordingly.

(5) In the case of any officer of the existing committee who becomes by virtue of this Act an officer of the Board, the service of such officer under the existing committee shall, for the purposes of Part IV of the Act of 1925, as amended by the Act of 1927, and as applied by this section, be reckoned as service as an officer of the Board.

(6) References in this section to an officer of the Board shall be construed as including references to an officer of the existing committee who is transferred to the Board under this Act.

(7) In this section the word “officer” includes the Resident Medical Superintendent.

(8) If any question arises under this Act whether a person who is or was in the service of the Board is or was an officer the question shall be referred to the Minister whose decision shall be final.