S.I. No. 315/1946 - Local Government Act, 1946 (Date of Commencement) (No. 1) Order, 1946.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1946. No. 315.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1946 (DATE OF COMMENCEMENT) (No. 1) ORDER, 1946.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1946 .

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Local Government Act, 1946 (in this Order referred to as " the Act ") it is enacted that the Act shall come into operation on such day or days as may be fixed therefor by order or orders of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health (in this Order referred to as " the Minister ") either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so fixed for different purposes and different provisions of the Act :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister in exercise of the powers so conferred on him, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act, 1946 (Date of Commencement) (No. 1) Order, 1946

2. The portions of the Act mentioned in the First Schedule to this Order shall for all purposes come into operation on the 31st day of August, 1946.

3. Section 5 shall come into operation on the 31st day of August, 1946, for the purpose only of effecting the repeal of the enactments which are mentioned in the First Schedule to the Act and which are not specified in the Second Schedule to this Order.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Portions of the Act brought into operation for all purposes on the 31st day of August, 1946:—

Sections 1 to 4

Section 6

Sections 30 to 34

Parts III, IV and V.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Enactments mentioned in the First Schedule to the Act the repeal of which is not effected by this Order.

3 & 4 Vic. c. 108—Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840—Sections 130, 131, 133 and 134.

10 & 11 Vic. c. 34—Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847—Sections 167 to 171, and Sections 173 to 184.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 103—Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854—Sections 60 to 65, the words " rate nor any " in Section 96.

61 & 62 Vic. c. 37—Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898—Sections 28, 45, 46, 47, 53, 56 and 57.

1 Edw. VII. c. 28—Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1901—Sections 2 and 4.

No. 3 of 1927— Local Government Act, 1927 —Section 6.

No. 53 of 1936— Local Authorities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1936 —Section 7.

No. 23 of 1939— Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1939 —Section 11; the words " and for the purpose of the calculation of the additional allowance to be made to such person by the council of the urban district in which the urban portion is situate " in paragraph (a) and paragraph (b) of section 12; paragraph (c) of section 12; sections 16 and 19; the words " and to the councils of urban districts " in sub-section (1) of section 20; the words " or of an urban district " in sub-section (3) of section 20; the words " or an urban district " in sub-section (4) of section 20.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this twenty-second day of August, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-six.

(Signed) SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.