No. 68/1931:

THE DUBLIN BOARDS OF ASSISTANCE (ANNUAL MEETINGS) ORDER, 1931.

THE DUBLIN BOARDS OF ASSISTANCE (ANNUAL MEETINGS) ORDER, 1931.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers vested in him by the Poor Relief (Ireland) Acts, 1838 to 1914, as amended by the Local Government (Dublin) Acts, 1930 and 1931, and of all other powers in this behalf enabling him, does hereby make the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Dublin Boards of Assistance (Annual Meetings) Order, 1931.

2.—(1) In these regulations the expression "board of assistance" means the Dublin Board of Assistance, the Balrothery Board of Assistance, or the Rathdown Board of Assistance, as the case may require.

(2) Other expressions have the same meanings as in the Local Government (Dublin) (Amendment) Act, 1931 .

3. A board of assistance shall hold an annual meeting in every year in accordance with these regulations at which the first business shall be the appointment of a chairman and vice-chairman from among their members.

4. For the purposes of the appointment of a chairman at the first meeting of a board of assistance, the person who was chairman of the Union Committee of which the board is the successor shall be chairman of the meeting.

5. The first meeting of a board of assistance shall be deemed to be an annual meeting, and until the completion of the first triennial appointment of members of the board the day of annual meeting of the board in every year after the year in which the first meeting is held shall be the day of the first ordinary meeting in the week in that year corresponding to the week in the year in which the first meeting was held.

6.—(1) In the year in which a triennial appointment of the members of a board of assistance is completed the day of annual meeting shall be the day of the first ordinary meeting of the board in the week next succeeding the completion of the appointment of members of the board and in every other year the day of annual meeting shall be the like day in the corresponding week of that year.

(2) For the purposes of these regulations an appointment of members of the Dublin Board of Assistance shall not be deemed to be completed until the appointment of members by the City Council and the County Council has been completed.

7. A chairman or a vice-chairman of a board of assistance shall continue in office until his successor is appointed, unless such chairman or vice-chairman shall previously die, resign or otherwise cease to be a member of the board, in which case his office shall become vacant and the board shall at their next ordinary meeting after the occurrence of the vacancy, or at such other meeting as the Minister for Local Government and Public Health may fix, appoint one of their members to fill the vacancy.

8. If at a meeting for the appointment of a chairman or vice-chairman of a board of assistance, an equal number of votes is given for two or more persons, the meeting shall determine by lot which of such persons shall be chairman or vice-chairman as the case may be.

9. The clerk of the union shall give to each member of a board of assistance at least three days notice in writing of the day of any meeting at which the appointment of a chairman or vice-chairman of the board is to be made.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local

Government and Public Health, this Sixth day of

October, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

(Signed) RISTEÁRD UA MAOLCHATHA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.