Health Authorities Act, 1960

Local committees.

10.—(1) (a) Where a local authority (whether the council of a county or the corporation of a county or other borough) who appoint members of a health authority established by this Act by resolution so decide, there shall stand established a local committee of the health authority for, in case the local authority are the council of the county of Dublin, the County Health District of Dublin or, in any other case, the functional area of the local authority, and the members of the committee shall consist of the members of the health authority appointed by the local authority and such other persons as the local authority may appoint from time to time (being, notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, members of the council of the county or the city or borough council for the borough).

(b) Where the council of a county who appoint members of a health authority established by this Act by resolution so decide, there shall stand established a local committee of the health authority for a specified part, in case the council are the council of the county of Dublin, of the County Health District of Dublin or, in any other case, of the county, and the members of the committee shall consist of such of the members of the health authority appointed by the council as are representative of that part of the County Health District of Dublin or the county and such other persons (being, notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act, members of the council and being representative of that part of the County Health District of Dublin or the county) as the council may from time to time appoint.

(c) Not more than three committees shall stand established under this subsection at the same time at the instance of the same council of a county.

(2) (a) In relation to the area for which a committee of a health authority under this section was established and as respects such services as, in the case of the committee, are specified by regulations made by the Minister for the purpose of this subsection, there shall stand delegated to the committee the functions of the members of the health authority under section 27 of the County Management Act, 1940 , and section 2 of the City and County Management (Amendment) Act, 1955 , and, where appropriate for the purposes of the said delegation, any reference in those sections to an elective body shall be construed as including a reference to the committee.

(b) The fact that functions of a health authority stand delegated under the foregoing paragraph shall not prevent the health authority from themselves exercising those functions.

(3) The quorum, procedure and place of meeting of a committee established under this section shall be such as may be appointed by rules to be made by the local authority who appointed the committee.