Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898

Appointment by district councils and guardians of committees consisting partly of non-members.

39.(1) A rural district council for any purpose of the Public Health Acts, and a board of guardians for the purpose of the admission of paupers to the union workhouse, may appoint for a dispensary district or other part of their district or union a local committee composed either wholly of members of their own body representing that dispensary, district or part, or partly of such members and partly of other persons, whether members of their own body or not, resident or interested in the said district or part.

(2) The appointing body may authorise the committee to institute any proceedings or do any act which that body might have instituted or done for the said purpose, except that they shall not authorise the committee to raise any money, nor to expend any money beyond such limit as is fixed by the appointing body, nor to appoint, remove, or alter the remuneration of any officer.

(3) The same persons may be appointed by any council and board to be a committee under this section of each appointing body in the same area.

(4) A district council, on the application of a committee under this section for any area, may authorise any expenditure, which otherwise would be general expenses under the Public Health Acts, to be incurred by the committee, on condition that the cost of the same is levied as special expenses off such area.

(5) The appointing body may revoke in whole or in part any appointment or authority made or given under this section.

Counties of Cities and Towns.