Cork City Management Act, 1929

Manager to act by signed order.

15.—(1) Every act or thing done and every decision taken by the Manager for the purpose of or in connection with the exercise or performance by him under this Act of any of the powers, functions or duties of the Corporation being an act or thing or a decision which, if done or taken by the council of a borough, county borough, or urban district would be required by or under any enactment to be done or taken by a resolution of such council shall be done or taken by the Manager by his signed order.

(2) Where by or under the provisions of any Act any public notice is required to be given before the passing by any such council as aforesaid of the resolution by which any such act or thing or any such decision is to be done or taken or before the holding of any meeting of such council at which such resolution is to be passed the like notice shall be given before the doing of such act or thing or the taking of such decision under this section by the Manager.

(3) The Town Clerk shall keep in the prescribed form a register or registers in which he shall enter or cause to be entered a copy of every order made under this section by the Manager and a record of the time when such order was so made and the said register or registers shall be produced by the Town Clerk at every meeting of the Council for the inspection of the members thereof.

(4) A copy of any such order as aforesaid which is certified by the Town Clerk and by the Manager to be a true copy of such order shall be received in all courts as evidence of the fact that such order was made and of the contents of such order unless the contrary is shown.

(5) A copy of any record contained in any register kept under this section or of any entry therein which is itself a copy of any such order as aforesaid shall if certified by the Town Clerk and the Manager to be a true copy of such record or such entry (as the case may be) be received in all courts as evidence either (as the case may require) of the fact that such record was made and of the contents thereof or of the fact that the order to which such entry relates was made and of the contents of such order.