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Assistant city medical officers.
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72.—(1) The corporation of a county borough may, with the consent of the Minister, and shall, if the Minister by order so directs, appoint one or more than one assistant city medical officer to assist the city medical officer in the performance of his duties.
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(2) The office of assistant city medical officer for a county borough shall be an office under the corporation of the county borough.
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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 city medical officer for a county borough is required for the purposes of any enactment (including this Act) and has been assigned to an assistant city medical officer for the county borough, such order, approval, sanction or act when made, given or done by the assistant city medical officer shall be as valid for all purposes as if it had been made, given or done by the city 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 borough under the title of assistant medical officer of health—
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(a) such person shall, upon the commencement of this section, become and be an assistant city medical officer for such county borough 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 of assistant medical officer of health in a county borough 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 corporation of such county borough to be an assistant city medical officer for such county borough as if the said selection and recommendation were made on a request made by such corporation after the commencement of this section under section 6 of the Act of 1926.
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