S.I. No. 169/1948 - Galway Port Sanitary Authority (Dissolution) Order, 1948.


S.I. No. 169 of 1948.

GALWAY PORT SANITARY AUTHORITY (DISSOLUTION) ORDER, 1948.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 107 of the Health Act, 1947 , after consultation with the Minister for Local Government hereby orders as follows :—

1. In this Order—

the expression " the Health Authority " means the Council of the County of Galway ; and

the expression " the Port Sanitary Authority " means the Galway Port Sanitary Authority.

2. The Port Sanitary Authority is hereby dissolved.

3.—(1) All property, rights and liabilities held, enjoyed or incurred by the Port Sanitary Authority shall be and are hereby transferred to the Health Authority and accordingly, without any further conveyance, transfer or assignment

(a) the said property shall vest in the Health Authority,

(b) the said rights shall be enjoyed by the Health Authority,

(c) the said liabilities shall be the liabilities of the Health Authority.

(2) All moneys transferred to the Health Authority by this Article which are standing in the books of any bank, corporation, or company in the name of the Port Sanitary Authority shall, upon the request of the Health Authority, be transferred into the name of the Health Authority.

4. Where any legal proceedings are pending to which the Port Sanitary Authority is a party, the name of the Health Authority shall be substituted in the proceedings for that of the Port Sanitary Authority and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

5. Thomas Cantwell, sanitary sub-officer to the Port Sanitary Authority shall be transferred to the service of the Health Authority to the office of sanitary sub-officer.

6. Each of the offices specified in the second column of the Schedule to this Order held by the persons specified in the first column of the said Schedule shall be abolished.

7. This Order may be cited as the Galway Port Sanitary Authority (Dissolution) Order, 1948.

SCHEDULE.

William A. Sandys

Temporary Port Medical Officer.

Tomás O Liodain

Temporary Clerk.

Joseph Carrol

Temporary Caretaker.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twenty-fifth day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.

(Signed) NOËL C. BROWNE,

Minister for Health.