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S.I. No. 44/1929 - Royal Hospital For Incurables, Donnybrook (Adaptation of Charter) Order, 1929.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1929. No. 44.

ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES, DONNYBROOK (ADAPTATION OF CHARTER) ORDER, 1929.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 1 of the Adaptation of Charters Act, 1926 (No. 6 of 1926), that the Executive Council may from time to time by order make all such adaptations of and modifications in any charter which by virtue of Article 73 of the Constitution has the force of law in Saorstát Eireann as are in the opinion of the Executive Council necessary in order to enable such charter to have full force and effect in Saorstát Eireann :

AND WHEREAS in the opinion of the Executive Council the adaptations intended to be made by this Order of the Charter hereinafter mentioned (being a charter to which section 1 of the Adaptation of Charters Act, 1926 (No. 6 of 1926) applies) are necessary in order to enable such charter to have full force and effect in Saorstát Eireann :

NOW, the Executive Council of Saorstát Eireann in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 1 of the Adaptation of Charters Act, 1926 (No. 6 of 1926), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Donnybrook (Adaptation of Charter) Order, 1929.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. In this Order the expression " the Charter " means the Charter granted on the 13th day of April, 1886, by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria to amend and vary the Charter granted on the 7th day of January, 1800, by His late Majesty King George III, for incorporating the Governors and Guardians of the Hospital for Incurables, near the City of Dublin, for dieting, lodging, clothing and maintaining poor persons afflicted with disorders declared to be incurable.

4. The reference in clause 5 of the Charter to the Chancellor of Ireland, the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench Division, and the Master of the Rolls in Ireland shall be construed as referring to the Chief Justice of Saorstát Eireann, the President of the High Court, and the senior ordinary Judge of the Supreme Court, and the Charter shall have effect accordingly.

Dublin,

This 3rd day of September, 1929.