Slaughter of Animals, Act, 1935
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Application to county health districts. |
4.—(1) The Minister may, if and whenever he thinks proper, by order confer on the board of health of a specified county health district power to regulate the slaughter of animals in such county health district or in a specified portion thereof. | |
(2) Whenever an order made by the Minister under the foregoing sub-section of this section is in force, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:— | ||
(a) sections 125 to 131 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, shall apply and have effect in relation to the county health district or the specified portion of a county health district (as the case may be) to which the said order under this section applies, but with the following modifications, that is to say:— | ||
(i) references in the said sections to commissioners shall be construed and have effect as references to the board of health of such county health district, and | ||
(ii) references in the said sections to the limits of the special Act shall be construed and have effect as references to the said county health district or specified portion of a county health district (as the case may be), and | ||
(iii) references in the said sections to the time of the passing of the special Act, shall, in the application of those sections to a town having commissioners under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 , be construed and have effect as references to the date on which the said Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 , was adopted in such town, and shall, in the application of the said sections to an area in which there is in force an order under section 1 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896 , investing the rural sanitary authority in such area with the powers given to an urban sanitary authority by section 105 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , for the purposes of regulating slaughter-houses within their district, be construed and have effect as references to the date on which the said order under the said section 1 came into force in the said area, and shall, in every other case be construed and have effect as references to the date of the said order under this section; | ||
(b) sections 29 , 30 , and 31 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890 , shall, as from the date of the said order under this section, apply and have effect in relation to the county health district or the specified portion of a county health district (as the case may be) to which such order relates as if such county health district or portion of a county health district were an urban sanitary district and the board of health of such county health district were the urban authority for such urban sanitary district; | ||
(c) the board of health of the county health district to which or to portion of which the said order under this section applies shall, in addition and without prejudice to the power to make bye-laws conferred by the said sections 125 to 131 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, have power to make bye-laws in respect of the whole or any portion of the said area to which the said order under this section applies for securing the decent and seemly conveyance of meat through public thorough-fares, for the inspection of meat to be sold for human consumption, and for prohibiting the sale for human consumption of meat which has not been inspected in accordance with such bye-laws; | ||
(d) sections 219 to 223 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , shall apply to every bye-law made by a board of health under this sub-section in like manner as they apply to bye-laws made under that Act; | ||
(e) immediately upon the coming into operation of the said order under this section, the powers under the said sections 125 to 131 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, (as incorporated or applied by the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 ) then vested in the commissioners under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 , of any town (having such commissioners) situate in the county health district or the specified portion of a county health district (as the case may be) to which the said order under this section applies shall terminate and cease to be exercisable by such commissioners; | ||
(f) immediately upon the coming into operation of the said order under this section, any powers in relation to slaughter-houses then vested, by virtue of an order under section 1 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896 , in the board of health of the county health district to which or to a specified portion of which the said order under this section applies shall terminate and cease to be exercisable in respect of slaughter-houses within the area to which the said order under this section applies. | ||
(3) The Minister may at any time by order amend any order previously made by him under this section, including an order made under this sub-section. |