County Scheme Order, Sligo No. 2, 1923.

MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.19/12/1923:

COUNTY SCHEME ORDER, SLIGO NO. 2, 1923.

No. 40,330/1923.

To the Council of the Administrative County of Sligo; To the Sligo County Board of Health; and to all whom it may concern:

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 5 of the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 , hereinafter referred to as the Act, as follows:—

1. The Minister, by order made under this Section, may from time to time amend or modify any County Scheme after it has come into operation in any way he may deem necessary and every such amendment or modification shall come into operation as from such date as the Minister shall by such Order direct.

4. This Section applies as well to existing County Schemes as to County Schemes submitted and confirmed under this Act.

AND WHEREAS by Section 21 of the Act, the word "Minister" is defined to mean the "Minister for Local Government ".

AND WHEREAS by the Sligo County Scheme Order, 1923, I, the Minister for Local Government, in pursuance of the said Section 5 of the said Act, did amend and modify the existing County Scheme for the Administrative County of Sligo in such way as to bring it into conformity with the provisions set out in the schedule to the said Order, and did substitute the said provisions for the provisions of the said existing County Scheme (which said first mentioned provisions are hereinafter referred to as the Sligo County Scheme):

AND WHEREAS the Sligo County Scheme has come into operation, and I, the Minister for Local Government, deem it necessary to amend the said scheme with respect to the classes of persons eligible for relief who may be admitted to the Sligo County Home, and have given to the Council of the Administrative County of Sligo, one month's notice of my intention to make the said amendment and have taken into consideration any representation which has been made to me by such Council within such month in respect of the said amendment:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, the Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers given to me by sub-section (1) of Section 5 of the Act, the said month having expired, do by this My Order, order and direct as follows:—

1. The Sligo County Scheme shall be amended by the substitution for paragraph (a) of sub-article (i) of article 15 thereof, of the following paragraph:—

(a) A County Home at Sligo for aged and infirm persons, chronic invalid, children under three years of age, and unmarried mothers.

and article 15 of the said scheme shall be read and construed accordingly.

2. This amendment shall be deemed to have come into operation as from the Seventeenth day of November, 1923.

3. This Order may be cited as the "Sligo County Scheme (No. 2) Order, 1923".

Given under my Seal of Office, this Nineteenth day of December, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-three.

(Sighnithe) SÉAMUS DE BÚRCA,

Minister for Local Government.