S.I. No. 274/1975 - Cork Blood Transfusion Service Committee (Establishment) Order, 1975.

S.I. No. 274 of 1975.

CORK BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE COMMITTEE (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER, 1975.

WHEREAS on the 15th day of August, 1975, the Minister for Health certified that the Cork Blood Transfusion Service is a company under the Companies Acts, 1908 to 1959, to which section 8 of the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 , applied;

AND WHEREAS on the 19th day of September, 1975 the said Cork Blood Transfusion Service duly resolved that the said Company be wound up for the purpose of the said section 8 of the said Act;

AND WHEREAS by virtue of subsection (3) of the said section 8 the said Company is deemed to be a body established by an establishment order under the said Act and in pursuance of the said subsection the Minister for Health is required to make, in respect of the said body, an establishment order under the said Act;

NOW, therefore, the Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3 to 6 of the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 , hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Cork Blood Transfusion Service Committee (Establishment) Order, 1975.

2. In this Order:—

"the Committee" means the Cork Blood Transfusion Service Committee established by this Order;

"the Company" means the company known as the Cork Blood Transfusion Service with registered offices at 21-23 Leitrim Street, Cork.

3. A body, to be known as the Cork Blood Transfusion Service Committee, is hereby established.

4. The functions of the Committee are to take over the property (including choses-in-action), assets, rights and liabilities which immediately before the 19th day of September, 1975 were vested in or belonged to or were held in trust for the Company and to perform the functions which immediately before the 19th day of September, 1975 the Company was empowered by the provisions of the Memorandum of Association of the Company to perform.

5. The Committee shall consist of those persons who, on the 19th day of September, 1975, were members of the Council of Management of the Company and the Chairman of the Company shall be chairman of the Committee.

6. (1) The Committee may meet for the transaction of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit.

(2) The first meeting of the Committee shall be convened by the Chairman of the Committee.

(3) The quorum of the Committee shall be three.

(4) All acts of the Committee and all questions coming or arising before the Committee may be done and decided by a majority of such members of the Committee as are present and vote at a meeting of the Committee.

(5) In case of equality of votes on any question arising at a meeting of the Committee the chairman of the Committee shall have a second or casting vote.

(6) Minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of the Committee shall be entered in a book kept for that purpose and shall be signed by the chairman of the meeting or of the next meeting.

(7) The seal of the Committee shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairman of the Committee and any one other member.

7. The Committee shall cause to be kept proper accounts of all income and expenditure of the Committee, and of the sources of such income and the subject matter of such expenditure, and of the property, credits and liabilities of the Committee.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 25th day of November, 1975.

BRENDAN CORISH,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to establish under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 a body to be known as the Cork Blood Transfusion Service Committee in succession to the Cork Blood Transfusion Service which, by resolution passed on 19th September, 1975 was wound up for the purposes of Section 8 of the said Act.