Vital Statistics and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1952
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Public assistance authority to be superintendent registrar. |
10.—(1) Where a vacancy in the office of superintendent registrar for a district exists on the commencement of this section or occurs subsequently— | |
(a) the public assistance authority under the Public Assistance Act, 1939 (No. 27 of 1939), within whose functional area the district is situate shall thereafter be the superintendent registrar for the district, | ||
(b) sections 22 and 53 of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act, 1863, and section 20 of the Registration of Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1863 , shall cease to have effect in relation to the district, | ||
(c) section 26 of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act, 1863, and sections 21 and 22 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880, shall cease to have effect in relation to the district so far as those sections relate to deputy, assistant and interim superintendent registrars. | ||
(2) Where— | ||
(a) on the commencement of this section a person holds the office of interim superintendent registrar for a district, and | ||
(b) such person was, on the 13th day of February, 1952, neither an officer or servant of a local authority nor in receipt of a superannuation allowance from a local authority, | ||
subsection (1) of this section shall, as respects that district, have effect with the substitution of “Where a person who on the commencement of this section holds the office of interim superintendent registrar for a district ceases to hold that office” for “Where a vacancy in the office of superintendent registrar for a district exists on the commencement of this section or occurs subsequently”. |