Dublin Fever Hospital Act, 1936

Miscellaneous provisions in relation to officers.

24.—(1) The hospital board may, with the approval of the Minister, remove from office any officer of the hospital board.

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

(3) The hospital board shall be deemed to be a local authority within the meaning of the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 39 of 1926), and for that purpose the expression “the Minister” in that Act shall, in relation to the hospital board, mean the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

(4) The hospital 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, as so amended, shall apply to the hospital board and the officers of the hospital board accordingly.

(5) In the case of any officer of the body corporate who becomes by virtue of Part IV of this Act an officer of the hospital board, the service of such officer under the body corporate 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 hospital board.

(6) References in this section to an officer of the hospital board shall be construed as including references to an officer of the body corporate who is transferred to the hospital board under Part IV of this Act.

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

Management of Hospitals and Convalescent Homes and Admission of Patients.