Health Act, 1947
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District medical officers of health. |
73.—(1) A medical officer of a dispensary district under the Public Assistance Act, 1939 (No. 27 of 1939), shall be the medical officer of health for the district consisting of such dispensary district or the portion thereof of which he is in charge. | |
(2) The office of a district medical officer shall be an office under the health authority for his district, but— | ||
(a) where the district of a district medical officer consists of a part in a county and a part in a county borough, such district medical officer shall, as respects the part in the county, be an officer of the council of the county and, as respects the part in the county borough, be an officer of the corporation of the county borough, | ||
(b) where the whole or any part of the district of a district medical officer is situated in an urban district, the office of such officer shall, as respects assignment of duties relating to the functions of the urban sanitary authority for such urban district, be deemed for the purposes of sections 10 and 20 of the Act of 1941 to be an office under the urban sanitary authority for the urban district. | ||
(3) The remuneration of a district medical officer shall be paid— | ||
(a) where there is one health authority only for his district, by that authority, and | ||
(b) where there are two health authorities for his district, by those authorities, in such proportions as the Minister directs. | ||
(4) The expenses of a district medical officer shall be paid— | ||
(a) where there is one health authority only for his district, by that authority, and | ||
(b) where there are two health authorities for his district, by the health authority for the portion of his district, in respect of which the expenses were incurred. | ||
(5) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, the Local Appointments Commissioners were engaged in the selection of a person or persons to be recommended for appointment to the office of medical officer of a dispensary district, such selection shall be completed in such manner as the said Commissioners shall think proper, and the person or one of the persons so selected and recommended by the Commissioners shall be appointed as medical officer of the said dispensary district and the provisions of subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this section shall apply in relation to such medical officer as if he had been so appointed before the commencement of this section. | ||
(6) A reference in any enactment in force at the commencement of this section to the office of medical officer of health of a dispensary district or the holder thereof shall be construed as a reference to the office established by this section or the holder thereof (as the case may be). |