Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1993
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Alteration of certain boundaries existing before establishment day. |
8.—(1) The boundary between the city and the county as existing immediately before the establishment day shall stand altered on and from that day so as to correspond with— | |
(a) the recommended boundary shown on Map No. 11 of the reorganisation report, and | ||
(b) such alterations as may be made pursuant to section 10 (2), | ||
and the boundaries of the electoral counties shall accordingly also stand so altered to correspond with the foregoing alterations. | ||
(2) Arising from such alterations in the boundary between the city and the county— | ||
(a) each of the areas of the city which is to transfer to the county (the “excluded areas”) shall be detached from the city and from the jurisdiction and powers of Dublin Corporation and added to the county and each of the said areas shall be included in, and form part of, the county for all purposes, and | ||
(b) each of the areas of the county which is to transfer to the city (the “added areas”) shall be detached from the county and from the jurisdiction and powers of the county council and added to the city, and shall be included in, and form part of, the city for all purposes. | ||
(3) The provisions of articles 3 to 8, 11 and 12 (1) of the Second Schedule to the Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985 shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and any regulations made thereunder, apply and have effect with all necessary adaptations in relation to the alteration of boundaries effected by subsection (1) and for that purpose, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, in the said articles— | ||
(a) “this Act” shall mean the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1993; | ||
(b) “the county council” shall have the same meaning as in this Act; | ||
(c) section 8 of this Act shall be substituted for any reference to section 10 of that Act; | ||
(d) “the excluded areas” and “the added areas” shall mean such areas as defined by section 8 of this Act; | ||
(e) section 28 of the Electoral Act, 1992 shall be substituted for the reference to section 22 of the Electoral Act, 1963 in article 6 (3); | ||
(f) the year 1993 shall be substituted for any reference to the year “1985”; | ||
(g) the Table to article 11 shall accordingly apply to the years 1994 to 2003 in like manner as it applied to the years 1986 to 1995; and | ||
(h) a reference to the county rate in that article shall be deemed to be a reference to the rate of the county council established by section 11 of this Act in whose administrative county the hereditament is situate. | ||
(4) The Minister or any other Minister of the Government, after consultation with the Minister, may by regulations provide that, notwithstanding the alteration of boundaries effected by subsection (1) and the establishment of administrative counties by section 9 — | ||
(a) any enactment (other than this Act) or any order, regulation, rule, bye-law or other instrument or agreement made wholly or partly under any such enactment for which the relevant Minister is responsible, shall, for such period as may be specified in the regulations, continue to have effect in the added areas, in the excluded areas or in any part so specified of those areas, | ||
(b) the expressions “county borough”, “county” or “administrative county” or any analogous expression in any enactment specified in the regulations or in any such instrument or agreement so specified, shall, for such period as is so specified, continue to include (and be deemed always to have continued to include) the excluded areas and the added areas or any part so specified of any such area. | ||
(5) The boundary between the South Dublin electoral county and the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown electoral county as existing immediately before the establishment day shall stand altered on that day so far as is necessary to give effect to the recommendations in the reorganisation report in that respect and to correspond with such alterations as may be made pursuant to section 10 (2). |