S.I. No. 65/1964 - Newcastle Hospital Board (Establishment) Order, 1964.

S.I. No. 65 of 1964.

NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL BOARD (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER, 1964.

WHEREAS on the 12th day of March, 1964, the Minister for Health certified that Newcastle Hospital is a company under the Companies Acts, 1908 to 1959, to which section 8 of the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 , applied;

AND WHEREAS on the 24th day of March, 1964, the said Newcastle Hospital duly resolved that the said Company be wound up for the purposes of the said section 8 of the said Act;

AND WHEREAS by virtue of subsection (3) of the said section 8 the said Company is deemed to be a body established by an establishment order under the said Act and in pursuance of the said subsection the Minister for Health is required to make, in respect of the said body, an establishment order under the said Act;

Now, Therefore, the Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3 to 6 of the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 , hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Newcastle Hospital Board (Establishment) Order, 1964.

2. In this Order—

"the Board" means the Newcastle Hospital Board established by this Order;

"the Company" means the company known as Newcastle Hospital with registered offices at 13, South Frederick Street, Dublin.

3. A body, to be known as the Newcastle Hospital Board, is hereby established.

4. The functions of the Board are to take over the property (including choses-in-action), assets, rights and liabilities which immediately before the 24th day of March, 1964, were vested in or belonged to or were held in trust for the Company and to perform the functions which immediately before the 24th day of March, 1964, the Company was empowered by the provisions of the Memorandum of Association of the Company to perform.

5. The Board shall consist of those persons who, on the 24th day of March, 1964, were members of the Board of Governors of the Company and the chairman of the Company shall be chairman of the Board.

6. (1) The Board may meet for the transaction of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit.

(2) The first meeting of the Board shall be convened by the chairman of the Board.

(3) The quorum of the Board shall be three.

(4) All acts of the Board and all questions coming or arising before the Board may be done and decided by a majority of such members of the Board as are present and vote at a meeting of the Board.

(5) In case of equality of votes on any question arising at a meeting of the Board, the chairman of the Board shall have a second or casting vote.

(6) Minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of the Board shall be entered in a book kept for that purpose and shall be signed by the chairman of the meeting or of the next meeting.

(7) The seal of the Board shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairman of the Board and any one other member.

7. The Board shall cause to be kept proper accounts of all income and expenditure of the Board, and of the sources of such income and the subject matter of such expenditure, and of the property, credits and liabilities of the Board.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 25th day of March, 1964.

SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to establish under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961 , a body to be known as the Newcastle Hospital Board in succession to the Newcastle Hospital which, by resolution passed on 24th March, 1964, was wound up for the purposes of Section 8 of the said Act.