S.I. No. 119/1971 - Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Regulations, 1971.
S.I. No. 119 of 1971. | ||
HEALTH (FLUORIDATION OF WATER SUPPLIES) REGULATIONS, 1971. | ||
The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act, 1960 (No. 46 of 1960), (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") hereby makes the following Regulations:— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Regulations, 1971. 2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1st day of April, 1971. 3. Where a council of a county is required by regulations made under the Act to perform the following acts in relation to the fluoridation of water in a water supply referred to in those regulations, namely, | ||
(a) the provision, installation and maintenance of equipment for fluoridation, | ||
(b) the making of arrangements for the addition of fluorine to the water, and | ||
(c) the testing of the fluorine content of the water to which fluorine has been added, | ||
the council shall perform such acts as agent for the health board in whose functional area such county is situated. | ||
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 30th day of March, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-One. | ||
ERSKINE CHILDERS, | ||
Minister for Health. | ||
EXPLANATORY NOTE. | ||
The effect of these Regulations is to require county councils to fluoridate public water supplies on behalf of health boards. |