Labourers Act, 1936

Approval, etc., of purchase schemes.

13.—(1) Where a purchase scheme in relation to any cottages is submitted by a board of health to the Minister under the immediately preceding section the Minister may, after consideration of any objection which may have been sent to him before the expiration of three weeks from the publication of the second of the notices relating to such scheme referred to in the said section, do any one of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) make an order approving of such purchase scheme without modification,

(b) make an order modifying such purchase scheme in such manner (whether by addition, omission or variation) as he thinks fit and approving of such purchase scheme as so modified,

(c) require a new purchase scheme in relation to such cottages to be prepared and submitted to him by such board of health.

(2) Where a purchase scheme in relation to any cottages is deemed under sub-section (4) of this section to have been submitted to the Minister by a board of health, the Minister may either—

(a) make an order modifying such purchase scheme in such manner (whether by addition, omission or variation) as he thinks fit and approving of such purchase scheme as so modified, or

(b) require a new purchase scheme to be prepared and submitted to him by such board of health.

(3) Every order made by the Minister under this section approving of a purchase scheme shall be laid (together with the purchase scheme) before Dáil Eireann as soon as may be after it is made and if a resolution annulling such order is passed by Dáil Eireann within the next three weeks (omitting from the reckoning any week in which Dáil Eireann has not sat at all) after the week in which such order is laid before Dáil Eireann such order shall be annulled accordingly.

(4) Where an order approving of a purchase scheme is annulled under the immediately preceding sub-section, a purchase scheme in the same terms as the terms of such first-mentioned purchase scheme as so approved shall be deemed to have been submitted to the Minister by the board of health by whom such first-mentioned purchase scheme was prepared.