Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935
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Veterinary officer of local authority acting as veterinary examiner. |
60.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, authorise a veterinary officer of a local sanitary authority to exercise and perform the powers and duties conferred or imposed by this Part of this Act on a veterinary examiner, and a veterinary officer so authorised is in this section referred to as an authorised veterinary officer. | |
(2) An authorised veterinary officer shall have all the powers and perform all the duties conferred or imposed on a veterinary examiner by or under this Part of this Act. | ||
(3) There shall be paid by the Minister to a local sanitary authority whose veterinary officer is an authorised veterinary officer by way of contribution towards the remuneration payable by such local sanitary authority to such officer such moneys as the Minister with the sanction of the Minister for Finance shall determine. | ||
(4) The Minister may at any time revoke an authorisation given under this section in respect of a veterinary officer of a local sanitary authority and thereupon such veterinary officer shall cease to be an authorised veterinary officer. | ||
(5) A veterinary officer of a local sanitary authority who is authorised under this section to exercise and perform the powers and duties conferred or imposed by or under this Act on a veterinary examiner shall not, if he was a pensionable officer within the meaning of Part IV of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), or within the meaning of any other enactment relating to the superannuation of officers of local authorities at the time of such authorisation, cease to be a pensionable officer, within the meaning of the said Part IV, or such other enactment, by reason only of his devoting portion of his time to the exercise and performance of the said powers and duties. |