No. 342/1947:

HEALTH ACT, 1947 (DATE OF COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1947.

HEALTH ACT, 1947 (DATE OF COMMENCEMENT) ORDER, 1947.

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Health Act, 1947 (hereinafter called " the Act ") it is enacted that the Act shall come into operation on such day or days as may be fixed therefor by order or orders of the Minister for Health either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so fixed for different purposes and different provisions of the Act :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers so conferred on him, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Health Act, 1947 (Date of Commencement) Order, 1947.

2. section 4 of the act shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1947, for the purpose of effecting the repeal of the enactments which are specified in the Schedule to this Order.

3. Sections 1 to 3 inclusive, Sections 5 to 9 inclusive, Sections 16 and 20, Part V, Part VI, Part VIII, Part IX and Part X of the Act shall for all purposes come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1947.

SCHEDULE.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this 24th day of October, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-seven.

(Signed) SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Health.