S.I. No. 2/1941 - Medical Practitioners Act, 1927, Adaptation Order, 1941.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1941. No. 2.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1927, ADAPTATION ORDER, 1941.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 5 of the Constitution (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937 (No. 40 of 1937), that for the purpose of ensuring that the laws in force in Saorstát Éireann immediately prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution shall continue to be of full force and effect in accordance with and to the extent provided by Article 50 of the Constitution, the Government may by order make all such general or specific adaptations and modifications of any statute or statutory instrument continued in force by the said Article 50 as shall, in the opinion of the Government, be necessary for the purpose aforesaid :

AND WHEREAS, in the opinion of the Government, the adaptation intended to be made by this Order of the Medical Practitioners Act, 1927 (No. 25 of 1927), being an Act continued in force by Article 50 of the Constitution, is necessary for the purpose of ensuring that that Act shall continue to be of full force and effect in accordance with and to the extent provided by the said Article 50 :

NOW, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by subsection (1) of section 5 of the Constitution (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937 (No. 40 of 1937), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Act, 1927 , Adaptation Order, 1941.

2. In this Order the expression " the Act " means the Medical Practitioners Act, 1927 (No. 25 of 1927).

3. The register to be prepared and established under subsection (1) of section 21 of the Act shall be known as " The Register of Medical Practitioners for Ireland," and the Act shall be adapted and modified accordingly.

4. The medical register mentioned in subsection (1) of section 31 of the Act shall be printed, published and sold under the title " The Medical Register of Ireland," and the Act shall be adapted and modified accordingly.

GIVEN under the official Seal of the Government this third day of January, 1941.

ÉAMON DE VALÉRA,

Taoiseach.