Local Government Act, 1931

Special provision for Grangegorman Mental Hospital Committee.

6.—(1) Nothing in this Act shall operate to make lawful or valid any act done by the Joint Committee of Management of the Grangegorman Mental Hospital (in this section referred to as the said Committee) which was before the passing of this Act specifically adjudged by a Court of Justice to have been unlawful or invalid.

(2) It shall be lawful for the said Committee to do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) to pay to any officer of the said Committee any arrears of salary up to the 17th day of July, 1929, and other moneys payable to such officer under an order made by any Court in consequence of a decision by such Court or by the Supreme Court that a resolution of the said Committee purporting to reduce the salary of such officer was invalid;

(b) to pay to any officer of the said Committee who was in the employment of the said Committee on the 12th day of July, 1925, any arrears of salary up to the 17th day of July, 1929, to which he would be entitled if a resolution of the said Committee purporting to reduce his salary, which was decided by the Supreme Court before the passing of this Act to be invalid in respect of other officers of the said Committee, were invalid in respect of him;

(c) to pay to any officer of the said Committee who was in the employment of the said Committee on the 12th day of July, 1925, salary as from the 17th day of July, 1929, at the rate at which such salary would be payable if the said resolution of the said Committee reducing or purporting to reduce such salary had not been passed.

(3) Save as is authorised by this section, it shall not be lawful for any officer of the said Committee to receive from or be paid by the said Committee any moneys alleged to be due to him on account of a resolution of the said Committee purporting to reduce the salaries of all or any of the officers of the said Committee having been decided by the Supreme Court to be invalid.

(4) The payment of any moneys by the said Committee in pursuance of an order made by a Court of Justice before the passing of this Act and grounded on the illegality or invalidity of a resolution of the said Committee purporting to reduce the salaries of any of the officers of the said Committee and the payment of the costs and expenses incurred by the said Committee in the proceedings in which any such order was made and the making of any other payment which is declared by this section to be lawful and the repayment of moneys and the payment of interest on moneys borrowed for making the said payments or any of them shall, for the purposes of section 68 of the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930 (No. 27 of 1930), be excepted purposes within the meaning of that section.

(5) Sub-section (7) of section 51 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 , shall apply in respect of any moneys which accrued due before the 30th day of June, 1931, and which the said Committee is authorised by this section to pay as if such moneys became due and payable on the 30th day of June, 1931.