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S.I. No. 4/1931 - The Boards of Health (Urban Powers) Orders, 1931.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1931. No. 4.

THE BOARDS OF HEALTH (URBAN POWERS) ORDERS, 1931.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

To the Council of every Administrative County not being a County Borough ; to the Board of Health for every County Health District ; and to all others whom it may concern :

WHEREAS by sub-section (2) of section 33 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, as adapted by subsequent enactments and as applied to boards of health by article 3 of the Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925, an Order made by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health pursuant to section 86 (1) of the Local Government Act, 1925 , it is provided in effect that boards of health established under the said last-mentioned Act shall have such powers and duties of urban sanitary authorities under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1896, or any other Act and such provisions of those Acts relating to urban districts shall apply to county health districts as the Minister for Local Government and Public Health by general order directs ; and that every such Order shall be forthwith laid before the Oireachtas :

AND WHEREAS it appears to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health expedient to direct that boards of health should have in regard to music and dancing within their districts the powers and duties of urban sanitary authorities hereinafter referred to :

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers vested in him as aforesaid, does by this his General Order, order and direct as follows, that is to say :—

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, a board of health may adopt Part IV of that Act in like manner as if such board were an urban authority.

2. This Order may be cited as the Boards of Health (Urban Powers) Order, 1931.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, this Eighth day of January One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-one.

(Signed) RISTEÁRD UA MAOLCHATHA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.