S.I. No. 285/1979:

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SANITARY SERVICES) ACT, 1948 (SECTION 34) (URBAN DISTRICT OF WESTPORT) ORDER, 1979.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SANITARY SERVICES) ACT, 1948 (SECTION 34) (URBAN DISTRICT OF WESTPORT) ORDER, 1979.

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of section 34 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, (No. 3 of 1948) hereby orders as follows:--

1. This order might be cited as the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948 (Section 34) Urban District of Westport Order, 1979.

2. On the seventh day after the date of this Order, section 34 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948 shall come into operation in the urban district of Westport.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment this 15th

day of August, 1979.

SYLVESTER BARRETT,

Minister for the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to bring section 34 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948 into operation in the urban district of Westport as named in the Order. Section 34 of that Act authorises a sanitary authority to grant to the occupier of land within that part of their sanitary district in which that section is in operation, or with the consent of such occupier to a camping organisation, a licence authorising the use during a specified period of twelve consecutive months of such land for camping. Camping will not be permissible in the area mentioned unless so licensed, subject to certain exceptions set out in the Act.