Health Authorities Act, 1960

Assignment and performance of duties under sanitary authorities.

21.—(1) A sanitary authority may, if at any time they are not satisfied with—

(a) the assignment of duties in relation to any of their functions to an officer or a class of officers to whom this section applies, or

(b) the performance of duties assigned in relation to any of their functions to an officer or a class of officers to whom this section applies,

request the Minister to issue a direction to the health authority concerned to provide for a satisfactory assignment or satisfactory performance (as may be appropriate) of such duties.

(2) After considering a request under subsection (1) of this section and any representations made in relation to the request by the health authority concerned, the Minister may issue such direction (if any) as he thinks fit to the health authority in relation to the assignment or performance of the duties referred to in the request, and the health authority shall forthwith comply with any such direction.

(3) This section applies to any officer under a health authority established by this Act who holds an office in relation to which the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 10 and section 20 of the Local Government Act, 1941 , apply as if it were also an office under the sanitary authority of every sanitary district in the functional area of that health authority.