Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

Officers of rural district councils.

83.—(1) Every person who is, on the thirteenth day after the day of election, an officer of a rural district council whose functional area is in the County, shall, on the fourteenth day after the day of election, be transferred to the service and become and be an officer of either (as circumstances may require) the County Council or the Board of Health.

(2) The provisions contained in Part I of this Act in relation to officers transferred by the said Part I from the service of an abolished body to the service of the successor of such abolished body shall apply in respect of every officer transferred by this section from the service of a rural district council to the service of the County Council or the Board of Health, and for the purposes of and in relation to such application the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) every officer transferred by this section from the service of a rural district council to the service of either the County Council or the Board of Health shall be deemed to be a transferred officer, and

(b) a rural district council from whose service an officer is transferred by this section shall in relation to such officer be deemed to be the predecessor from whose service such officer was transferred, and

(c) in relation to an officer transferred by this section to the service of the County Council, the County Council shall be deemed to be the successor to whose service such officer was transferred, and

(d) in relation to an officer transferred by this section to the service of the Board of Health, the Board of Health shall be deemed to be the successor to whose service such officer was transferred, and

(e) the appointed day shall be deemed to be the fourteenth day after the day of election, and

(f) no officer transferred by this section shall be removed from office by the County Council or the Board of Health (as the case may be) under the said provisions applied by this sub-section without the sanction of the Minister.

(3) Every dispute or question as to whether an officer transferred by this section is so transferred to the service of the County Council or to the service of the Board of Health shall be determined by the Minister, whose decision shall be final.