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Assistant county medical officers.
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70.—(1) The council of a county may, with the consent of the Minister, and shall, if the Minister by order so directs, appoint one or more than one assistant county medical officer to assist the county medical officer in the performance of his duties.
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(2) The office of assistant 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.
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(3) Where the making of any order, the giving of any approval or sanction or the doing of any other act by the county medical officer for a county is required for the purposes of any enactment (including this Act) and has been assigned to an assistant county medical officer for the county, such order, approval, sanction or act when made, given or done by the assistant county medical officer shall be as valid for all purposes as if it had been made, given or done by the county medical officer.
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(4) The following provisions shall apply in relation to a person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held, in a permanent capacity, an office in a county under the title of assistant county medical officer or assistant county medical officer of health—
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(a) such person shall, upon the commencement of this section, become and be an assistant county medical officer for such county under an order deemed to have been made under this section,
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(b) the first-mentioned office shall, for the purposes of any enactment relating to superannuation, be deemed not to have been abolished.
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(5) 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 in a county under the title of assistant county medical officer or assistant county medical officer of health, such selection shall be completed in such manner as the said Commissioners shall 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 such county to be an assistant county medical officer for such county as if the said selection and recommendation were made on a request by such council after the commencement of this section under section 6 of the Act of 1926.
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