Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898

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Powers of rural district councils under Public Health Acts.

41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.

59 & 60 Vict. c. 54.

33.—(1) There shall be transferred to the district council of every rural district the business of the rural sanitary authority in the district.

(2) Rural district councils shall also have such powers and duties of urban sanitary authorities under the Public Health Acts or any other Act, and such provisions of any of those Acts relating to urban districts shall apply to rural districts as the Local Government Board by general order direct; and every such order shall be forthwith laid before Parliament.

(3) The power to make such general order shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, the power conferred on the Board by section one of the Public Health Act, 1896 (which relates to investing rural authorities with the powers of urban authorities), and that power may be exercised by the Board on the application of a county council.