S.I. No. 10/1956:

LOCAL OFFICES (GAELTACHT) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1956.

LOCAL OFFICES (GAELTACHT) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1956.

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 sections 13 , 14 and 19 of the Local Government Act, 1941 , hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Order, 1956.

2. The Local Offices (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Order, 1943 (S.R. & O. 1943 No. 97) as amended by the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Order, 1955 ( S.I. No. 19 of 1955 ) shall be amended by the deletion of sub-article (2) of article 3 and the substitution therefor of the following :--

" (2) Article 3 of the Principal Order, as amended by subsequent orders, shall, in its application to a person to whom this article applies, be amended so as to provide that such person may continue in office until the 31st day of January, 1957, but shall thereupon cease to hold office unless he has theretofore satisfied the appropriate Minister in relation to the office that he possesses the knowledge of the Irish language mentioned in article 3 of the Principal Order."

3. This Order shall be read and construed as one with the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) Orders, 1928 to 1955 and may be collectively cited therewith as the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) Orders, 1928 to 1956.

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

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-six.

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-six.

BRENDAN CORISH,

Minister for Social Welfare.