County Management Act, 1940

Adaptation of enactments relating to county councils.

37.—(1) Every enactment and every order in force at the commencement of this Act in relation to councils of counties shall, subject to any order made by the Minister under this section, be construed and have effect with such modifications as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Act so far as they relate to such councils.

(2) The Minister may by order make, in respect of any enactment or order in force at the commencement of this Act in relation to councils of counties, all such adaptations of and modifications in any such enactment or order as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act so far as they relate to such councils.

(3) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if either such House shall, within the next twenty-one days on which it sits after such order is laid before it, pass a resolution annulling such order, such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.