Tuberculosis (Establishment of Sanatoria) Act, 1945
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Transfer of sanatorium to county authority or county authorities. |
6.—(1) When the establishment under this Act of a sanatorium has, in the opinion of the Minister, been completed, the Minister shall transfer his estate or interest in the land on which the sanatorium has been established and the equipment of the sanatorium— | |
(a) where there is only one county authority for the area for the inhabitants of which the sanatorium has been established to that authority, or | ||
(b) where there are two or more county authorities for the said area, to (as the Minister considers expedient) one of those authorities or some or all of them jointly. | ||
(2) On and after the making of a transfer under this section of land on which a sanatorium has been established, the Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Acts, 1908 and 1913, shall apply and have effect as if the sanatorium were a hospital provided under those Acts by the county authority or county authorities to whom such land is so transferred. | ||
(3) Where— | ||
(a) the Minister has acquired land compulsorily under Part III of this Act, and | ||
(b) immediately before the acquisition, a county authority, or two or more county authorities jointly, had an estate or interest in the land, and | ||
(c) the land is so transferred under this section that such county authority or any one or more of such county authorities does not or do not acquire an estate in the land, | ||
the Minister may by order require any county authority acquiring an estate in the land by virtue of the transfer to pay to the county authority or county authorities (as the case may be) not acquiring as aforesaid an estate in the land such sum or sums as he considers reasonable. | ||
(4) Where a sum is required under subsection (3) of this section to be paid to a county authority by another county authority, the first-mentioned authority may recover the sum from such other authority as a simple contract debt in any court of competent jurisdiction. |