Saint Laurence's Hospital Act, 1943

PART II.

The Board of Governors of Saint Laurence's Hospital.

Establishment, Constitution and Membership of the Board.

Establishment of the Board.

5.—(1) There shall be established on the first appointed day a board (in this Act referred to as the Board) to be styled and known as “The Board of Governors of Saint Laurence's Hospital” to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Act.

(2) The Board shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and an official seal (which shall be judicially noticed) and power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to hold land.

(3) Subject to any order made by the Minister under sub-section (4) of this section, the Board shall consist of a number of members equal to the number of members of the existing governing body immediately before the first appointed day.

(4) The Minister may at any time after the first appointed day from time to time by order alter the constitution of the Board in such manner as he thinks fit and any such order may contain such ancillary provisions as the Minister thinks expedient for the purposes of the order.

(5) Every order made under sub-section (4) of this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as conveniently may be after it is made and if a resolution annulling such order is passed by either House of the Oireachtas within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after such order is so laid before it such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.