County Scheme Order, Wexford No. 2, 1923.

MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.01/10/1923:

COUNTY SCHEME ORDER, WEXFORD NO. 2, 1923.

To the Council of the Administrative County of Wexford; to the Wexford 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 it is enacted amongst other things by sub-section (1) of Section 7 of the Act that a County Scheme may provide for the abolition of any County Infirmary Committee:

AND WHEREAS by the Wexford County Scheme Order, 1923, I, the Minister for Local Government, in pursuance of the said Section 5 of the Act, did amend and modify the existing County Scheme for the Administrative County of Wexford 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 same provisions for the provisions of the said existing County Scheme (which said first mentioned provisions are hereinafter referred to as the Wexford County Scheme):

AND WHEREAS the Wexford County Scheme has come into operation, and I, the Minister for Local Government, deem it necessary to amend the said scheme by providing for the abolition of the Joint Committee of Management of the Wexford County Infirmary and have given to the Council of the Administrative County of Wexford, 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 Wexford County Scheme shall be amended by the addition to the schedule annexed thereto, of bodies abolished, of the following:—

"The Joint Committee of Management of the Wexford County Infirmary"

and Article 12 thereof shall be read and construed accordingly.

2. This amendment shall be deemed to have come into operation as from the Third Day of September, 1923.

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

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this First day of October, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-three.

(Sighnithe) EARNÁN DE BLAGHD,

Minister for Local Government.