Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896

Constitution of port sanitary authority.

9.(1) The Local Government Board may, by provisional order, permanently constitute any sanitary authority whose district or part of whose district forms part of or abuts on any part of a port in Ireland, or the waters of such port, the sanitary authority of the whole of such port or of any part thereof (in this Act referred to as the “port sanitary authority”).

(2) The Local Government Board may also by provisional order permanently constitute a port sanitary authority for the whole or any part of a port, by combining any two or more sanitary authorities having jurisdiction within such port, or any part thereof, and may prescribe the mode of their joint action; or by forming a joint board consisting of representative members of any two or more sanitary authorities, in the same manner as is by the principal Act provided with respect to the formation of a united district; and the Local Government Board may by provisional order permanently constitute a port sanitary authority for any two or more ports, by forming a joint board consisting of representative members of all or any of the sanitary authorities having jurisdiction within such ports, or any part thereof.

(3) In any case in which the Local Government Board are by this section authorised permanently to constitute by provisional order a port sanitary authority, the said Board may, if they think fit, until such order has been made and confirmed by Parliament, temporarily constitute by order any such authority, and may renew any such last-mentioned order, and may by any order so made or renewed make any such provisions as they are by this section empowered to make by provisional order.

(4) Any order constituting a port sanitary authority may assign to such authority any powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities, and obligations under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1890, or this Act, and direct the mode in which the expenses of such authority are to be paid; and, where such order constitutes a joint board the port sanitary authority, it may contain regulations with respect to any matters for which regulations may be made by a provisional order forming a united district under the principal Act.

(5) A port in this Act means a port as established for the purposes of the laws relating to the Customs of the United Kingdom.