Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

Application and adaptation of enactments.

102.—(1) Every enactment (including local, personal, and private Acts) and every order in force at the passing of this Act in or in relation to the existing city or the county or either of the added urban districts or any of the coastal urban districts shall, on and after the passing of this Act but subject to any order made by the Minister under this section in respect of such enactment or order, be construed and have effect with such modifications as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Act.

(2) The Minister may by order do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) make such adaptations and modifications of and in any local, personal, or private Act or any order relating to the existing city or to either of the added urban districts or to any of the coastal urban districts and in force at the passing of this Act as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect;

(b) apply to the whole of the City any local, personal, or private Act or any order relating to the existing city or any portion thereof, or to either of the added urban districts and in force at the passing of this Act;

(c) apply to the Borough any local, personal, or private Act or any order relating to any of the coastal urban districts and in force at the passing of this Act.

(3) The Minister may by order make, in or of any Act (including Acts passed after the passing of this Act but before the 1st day of April, 1931) or any order made under statutory authority relating generally to boroughs, county boroughs, or urban districts or the councils of boroughs, county boroughs, or urban districts, all such adaptations and modifications in respect of the application of such Act or order in or in relation to the City and the Borough or either of them or the City Corporation, the City Council, the Borough Corporation, and the Borough Council or any of them as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect.

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