No. 76/1932:

BOARDS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (PROCEDURE) ORDER, 1962.

BOARDS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (PROCEDURE) ORDER, 1962.

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, the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Acts, 1923 and 1924, and by every County Scheme confirmed or amended by or in pursuance of the said last mentioned Acts, the Local Government Acts, 1925 and 1927, and of all other powers in this behalf enabling him, does by this his Order, make the following rules and regulations, that is to say:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Boards of Public Health and Public Assistance (Procedure) Order, 1932, and shall come into operation as from the first day of October, 1932.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed after the 1st day of January, 1924.

3. On the coming into operation of this Order, Articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Order made by the Minister for Local Government dated the 4th day of March, 1926, entitled the County Boards of Health (General Regulations) Order, 1924, shall cease to have effect.

4. In this Order—

the word "board" means and includes a board of public health, a board of health and public assistance and any body to which is entrusted under any County Scheme confirmed or amended by or in pursuance of the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Acts, 1923 and 1924, the administration of the relief of the poor in the area to which such County Scheme relates.

5.—(1) The chairman may at any time call a meeting of the board.

(2) If the chairman of the board refuses to call a meeting after a requisition for that purpose, signed by three members of the board, has been presented to him, any three members of the board may forthwith, on that refusal, call a meeting. If the chairman (without so refusing) does not within seven days after such presentation call a meeting, any three members of the board may, on the expiration of those seven days, call a meeting.

6.—(1) Three clear days at least before any meeting of the board, a summons to attend the meeting, specifying the business proposed to be transacted thereat, and signed by the secretary of the board, shall be left or delivered by post at the usual place of abode of every member of the board.

(2) Want of service of a summons to attend a meeting of the board of any member thereof shall not affect the validity of a meeting.

7. All acts of the board, and all questions coming or arising before the board, may be done and decided by the majority of such members of the board as are present and vote at a meeting held in pursuance of this Order.

8. The names of the members of the board present as well as those voting on each question shall be recorded, so as to show whether each vote given was for or against the question.

9. Minutes of the proceedings at every meeting of the board shall be drawn up and fairly entered in a book kept for that purpose.

10.—(1) No motion to rescind any resolution which has been passed by the board within the preceding six months nor any motion to the same effect as any motion which has been negatived within the preceding six months, shall be in order, unless the notice thereof shall have been given and specified in the summons for the meeting of the board at which it is moved and the notice shall bear in addition to the name of the member of the board who proposes the motion, the names of two other members of the board.

(2) When any such motion as is referred to in the foregoing paragraph of this article has been disposed of by the board, it shall not be competent for any member of the board to propose a similar motion within a further period of six months.

11. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Order, a board may from time to time make standing orders for the regulation of their proceedings and business, and vary or revoke the same.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for

Local Government and Public Health, this

ninth day of September, One Thousand Nine

Hundred and Thirty-Two.

(Signed) SEÁN T. Ó CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.