Dublin Hospitals Regulation Act, 1856

Lord Lieutenant may direct Management of the Hospitals to be vested in Board of Governors.

V. The Lord Lieutenant may, when he shall deem it expedient so to do, by Order direct that the Management of the House of Industry Hospitals shall be vested in a Board of Governors to be partly nominated by the Lord Lieutenant and partly elected by the Subscribers to the said Hospitals, in such Proportion as the Lord Lieutenant shall from Time to Time determine, and the Lord Lieutenant shall also from Time to Time determine the Number of Members of which such Board shall consist, and the Qualification of such Members as are to be so elected by the said Subscribers.