Health Act, 1947
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County medical officers. |
69.—(1) In every county there shall be a county medical officer to advise the health authority generally in relation to the health of the people and to perform such other duties as may be assigned to him in relation to the functions of the health authority or the functions of any sanitary authority in the county. | |
(2) The office of the county medical officer for a county shall be an office under the council of the county and the salary and expenses of the office shall be paid by the said council, but the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 10, and of section 20 of the Act of 1941 relating to the duties of officers and of subsection (2) of the said section 10 relating to appeals by officers shall apply in relation to the said office as if it were also an office under the sanitary authority of every sanitary district in the county. | ||
(3) The county medical officer for a county shall be the chief medical officer for the county for the purposes of this Act. | ||
(4) The county medical officer for a county shall be known as the ______________ County Medical Officer (with the name of the county prefixed). | ||
(5) The following provisions shall apply in relation to a person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held, in a permanent capacity, the office of county medical officer of health under section 21 (repealed by this Act) of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925)— | ||
(a) such person shall, upon the commencement of this section, become and be the county medical officer under this section for the county in which he performed his duties as such county medical officer of health; | ||
(b) the first-mentioned office shall, for the purposes of any enactment relating to superannuation, be deemed not to have been abolished. | ||
(6) A reference in any enactment in force at the commencement of this section to the office of county medical officer of health or the holder thereof shall be construed as a reference to the office established by this section or the holder thereof (as the case may be). | ||
(7) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, the Local Appointments Commissioners were engaged in the selection of a person or persons to be recommended for appointment to an office of county medical officer of health, such selection shall be completed in such manner as the said Commissioners think proper, and the person or one of the persons so selected and recommended by the said Commissioners for appointment shall be appointed by the council of the county to be county medical officer as if the said selection and recommendation were made on a request, made by the council of the county after the commencement of this section under section 6 of the Act of 1926. |