Local Government Act, 1941
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Vaccination. |
87.—(1) In this section— | |
the expression “the Vaccination Acts” means the Vaccination (Ireland) Acts, that is to say, the Vaccination (Ireland) Act, 1858, the Vaccination (Ireland) Act, 1863, the Vaccination Amendment (Ireland) Act, 1868, and the Vaccination Amendment (Ireland) Act, 1879, together with section 147 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , and | ||
the expressions “sanitary district” and “sanitary authority” have the same meaning as in the Public Health Acts, 1878 to 1931. | ||
(2) The following provisions shall apply and have effect in relation to the Vaccination Acts, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the powers and duties conferred or imposed by the said Acts on a board of guardians or on a committee of management of a dispensary district shall, in every sanitary district, be exercised and performed by the sanitary authority of such sanitary district; | ||
(b) every vaccination district existing immediately before the commencement of this section which is wholly within one sanitary district shall be a vaccination district at and after such commencement; | ||
(c) if portion of a vaccination district existing immediately before the commencement of this section is within one sanitary district and another portion is within another sanitary district each of such portions shall be a vaccination district at and after such commencement; | ||
(d) every mention or reference contained in the said Acts of or to a board of guardians or of or to the guardians of the poor or of or to a committee of management of a dispensary district shall be construed and have effect as a mention of or reference to the appropriate sanitary authority; | ||
(e) every mention or reference contained in the said Acts of or to a poor law union shall be construed and have effect as a mention of or reference to a sanitary district; | ||
(f) every mention or reference contained in the said Acts of or to a dispensary district shall be construed and have effect as a mention of or reference to so much of a dispensary district for the purposes of medical assistance under the Public Assistance Act, 1939 (No. 27 of 1939), as is situate within the relevant sanitary district; | ||
(g) every mention or reference contained in the said Acts of or to the medical officer of a dispensary district shall be construed and have effect as a mention of or reference to the medical officer of health of the appropriate dispensary district, or where there is more than one such medical officer, to the medical officer who acts for the appropriate vaccination district. | ||
(3) The provisions of section 9 of the Act of 1923 and the provisions of any order made under section 20 of that Act shall, if and in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of the next preceding-sub-section of this section, cease to have effect. | ||
(4) The expenses incurred by a sanitary authority for the purposes of the Vaccination Acts as adapted or affected by this section shall be raised in the same manner as the expenses or, in the case of a rural sanitary authority, the general expenses of such sanitary authority for the purposes of the Public Health Acts, 1878 to 1931, are raised. |