Local Government (Dublin) (Amendment) Act, 1940

Incorporation of portions of the Principal Act.

5.—(1) The following sections (in this section referred to as the incorporated sections) of the Principal Act, that is to say, sections four to fifteen and sections nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-eight, eighty-seven, eighty-eight, and one hundred and two are hereby incorporated in this Act with the modifications set forth in the next following sub-section of this section, and accordingly the said incorporated sections shall have effect as if they were re-enacted in this Act with the modifications aforesaid.

(2) The following modifications are hereby made in the incorporated sections for the purpose of their incorporation in this Act, but no further or otherwise, that is to say:—

(a) the district council shall, for the purpose aforesaid, be deemed to be an abolished body, and accordingly every reference in the incorporated sections to abolished bodies or to an abolished body shall be construed as a reference to the district council;

(b) the urban district shall, for the purpose aforesaid, be deemed to be an added urban district, and accordingly every reference in the incorporated sections to added urban districts or to an added urban district shall be construed as a reference to the urban district;

(c) the city corporation shall, for the purpose aforesaid, be deemed to be the successor of the district council;

(d) the expression “the existing city” wherever it occurs in the incorporated sections shall be construed as meaning the county borough of Dublin as existing at the passing of this Act;

(e) the expression “this Act” and “this Part of this Act” wherever they respectively occur in the incorporated sections shall be construed as meaning the incorporated sections as incorporated in this Act;

(f) the expression “the appointed day” wherever it occurs in the incorporated sections shall be construed as meaning the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of this Act;

(g) so much of the incorporated sections as relates exclusively to the borough of Dun Laoghaire shall be disregarded;

(h) such of the definitions contained in section 1 of the Principal Act as relate to words or expressions occurring in any of the incorporated sections and are not inconsistent with any of the foregoing provisions of this sub-section shall be deemed to be re-enacted in this Act for the purpose of the interpretation of the incorporated sections.