Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985

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Management of County Borough of Galway.

7.—(1) The City Council shall directly perform all the functions of the Corporation which by virtue of subsection (3) of this section are reserved functions and such other functions as are for the time being declared by or under any enactment to be reserved functions.

(2) There shall be an office of Galway City Manager the holder of which shall perform for the Corporation every function of the Corporation which (having regard to subsections (1) and (3) of this section) is not a reserved function.

(3) Subject to this section and to the provisions of any order made under section 8 or 24 of this Act, the County Management Acts, 1940 to 1972, shall apply to the Corporation in like manner as they apply to the council of a county.

(4) For the purposes of giving effect to subsection (3) of this section, in the County Management Acts, 1940 to 1972, except where the context otherwise requires—

(a) any reference to a county shall be construed as including a reference to the County Borough,

(b) any reference to the council of a county shall be construed as including a reference to the Corporation, or, as may be appropriate, to the City Council,

(c) any reference to the chairman of the council of a county shall be construed as including a reference to the Mayor of the County Borough,

(d) any reference to a meeting, member, committee, member of a committee or meeting of a committee of a county council shall be construed as including a reference to a meeting, member, committee, member of a committee or meeting of a committee, as may be appropriate, of the City Council,

(e) any reference to a borough in the Second Schedule to the County Management Act, 1940 , shall be construed as including a reference to the County Borough,

(f) any reference to a county manager shall be construed as including a reference to the Galway City Manager, and

(g) any reference to an assistant county manager shall be construed as including a reference to a Galway Assistant City Manager.

(5) The office of Galway County Manager and the office of Galway City Manager shall be held by one and the same person.

(6) The person who immediately before the appointed day held in a permanent capacity the office of Galway County Manager shall, on and from that day, become, by virtue of this subsection, the Galway City Manager.

(7) (a) Subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, where, in the case of the Corporation and the County Council—

(i) one of them by resolution declares that the office of Galway County Manager and the office of Galway City Manager should cease to be held by one and the same person, and

(ii) the other of them, on the day on which such resolution is passed or on a day within three months thereafter, by resolution also declares as aforesaid,

the Minister may by order terminate the operation of subsection (5) of this section.

(b) If the person who on the 1st day of March, 1985, was the Galway County Manager, holds on the appointed day the offices of Galway County Manager and Galway City Manager by virtue of subsection (6) of this section, then for so long as that person continues thereafter so to hold those offices, paragraph (a) of this subsection shall not have effect.