S.I. No. 18/1955:

LOCAL OFFICERS (IRISH LANGUAGE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1955.

LOCAL OFFICERS (IRISH LANGUAGE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1955.

The Minister for Local Government, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Social Welfare in exercise of the powers conferred on each of them by section 13 and paragraphs (g) and (i) of section 19 of the Local Government Act, 1941 , hereby make the following regulations:

1.--(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Officers (Irish Language) (Amendment) Regulations, 1955.

(2) These Regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Local Officers (Irish Language) Regulations, 1944 to 1954, and may be collectively cited therewith as the Local Officers (Irish Language) Regulations, 1944 to 1955.

(3) In these Regulations, "the Principal Regulations" means the Local Officers (Irish Language) Regulations, 1944 (S.R. & O. 1944 No. 76) as amended by the Local Officers (Irish Language) (Amendment) Regulations, 1947, the Local Officers (Irish Language) (Amendment) Regulations, 1951, ( S.I. No. 225 of 1951 ) and the Local Officers (Irish Language) (Amendment) Regulations, 1954 ( S.I. No. 20 of 1954 ).

2. The Principal Regulations shall be amended by the deletion of article 5 and the substitution therefor of the following :--

"5. Any person who is appointed to an office to which these Regulations apply the duties of which are to be performed in or in relation to any part of the Gaeltacht and who at the time of such appointment does not possess a knowledge of the Irish Language sufficient to enable him to perform the duties of the said office through the medium of the said language shall cease to hold such office at the expiration of three years from such appointment or on the 31st day of January, 1956 (whichever is the later) unless he has theretofore satisfied the appropriate Minister in relation to such office that he possesses such a knowledge of the said language."

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Thirty-first day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-five.

PATRICK O'DONNELL,

Minister for Local Government.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this Thirty-first day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-five.

THOMAS F. O'HIGGINS,

Minister for Health.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this Thirty-first day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-five.

BRENDAN CORISH,

Minister for Social Welfare.