Local Government (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1934

PART III.

Provisions Consequential on the Division of a County Into County Health Districts.

Application and interpretation of this Part of this Act.

10.—(1) Whenever the Minister has made a dividing order, this Part of this Act shall, as on and from the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of such order, come into operation and apply and have effect in relation to the county to which such order relates, and accordingly the following expressions have in the subsequent sections of this Part of this Act the meanings hereinafter assigned to them respectively, that is to say:

the expression “the dividing order” means the said dividing order the making of which occasions the coming into operation of this Part of this Act;

the expression “the county” means the county to which the said dividing order relates;

the expression “the council” means the council of the said county;

the expression “the existing district” means the county health district existing in the said county at the date of the said dividing order;

the expression “the existing board” means the board of public health or the board of health and public assistance (as the case may be) for the said county health district so existing as aforesaid;

the expression “new district” means a county health district constituted in pursuance of the said dividing order;

the expression “the appointed day” means the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of the said dividing order.

(2) Without prejudice to or derogation from the operation and effect of the provision contained in this Act requiring this Act to be construed as one with the Principal Acts, it is hereby declared that the expression “joint district” has in this Part of this Act the meaning given to it in sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Local Government Act, 1927 (No. 3 of 1927), and that the proviso to that sub-section shall have effect accordingly.