City and County Management (Amendment) Act, 1955
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Grouping of Counties. |
12.—(1) Where, in the case of two counties— | |
(a) one of the councils of the counties by resolution declare that the counties should become grouped counties, and | ||
(b) on the day on which such resolution is passed or on a day within three months thereafter, the other council by resolution also declare as aforesaid, | ||
the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Health and the Minister for Social Welfare, may by order extend the application of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Act of 1940 by the insertion of the counties as a group in the First Schedule to that Act. | ||
(2) An order under subsection (1) of this section shall not be made in relation to two counties unless—at the time of the making of the order— | ||
(a) neither county is one of two grouped counties, | ||
(b) neither county is, if the order is made before the commencement of an order under section 14 of this Act, the county of Dublin, and | ||
(c) the office of manager for at least one of the counties is vacant. | ||
(3) An order under subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the day specified in that behalf in the order, being a day not earlier than sixty days, and not later than one hundred and eighty days, after the day on which the order is made. | ||
(4) Where, immediately before the making of an order under subsection (1) of this section, a person held permanently the office of county manager for one of the counties concerned, that person shall, on such commencement, become and be appointed permanently by virtue of this subsection as the manager for the other county. | ||
(5) An order under subsection (1) of this section in relation to the county of Tipperary, North Riding, and the county of Tipperary, South Riding, shall be expressed and shall operate to amend section 9 of the Act of 1940 by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2): | ||
“(3) There shall be an assistant county manager for the county of Tipperary, North Riding, and an assistant county manager for the county of Tipperary, South Riding, but one and the same person shall be the assistant county manager for each of those counties.” |