Health Act, 1947

City medical officers.

71.—(1) In every county borough there shall be a city medical officer to advise the health authority generally in relation to the health of the people and to perform such other duties as may be assigned to him in relation to the functions of the corporation of the county borough.

(2) The office of the city medical officer for a county borough shall be an office under the corporation of the county borough.

(3) The city medical officer for a county borough shall be the chief medical officer for the county borough for the purposes of this Act.

(4) The city medical officer for a county borough shall be known as the ________________ City Medical Officer (with the name of the county borough prefixed).

(5) The following provisions shall apply in relation to a person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held, in a permanent capacity, the office of medical superintendent officer of health for a county borough under section 11 (repealed by this Act) of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

(a) such person shall, upon the commencement of this section, become and be the city medical officer for such county borough under this section,

(b) the first-mentioned office shall, for the purposes of any enactment relating to superannuation, be deemed not to have been abolished.

(6) A reference in any enactment in force at the commencement of this section to the office of medical superintendent officer of, health for a county borough or the holder thereof shall be construed as a reference to the office of city medical officer established by this section or the holder thereof (as the case may be).

(7) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, the Local Appointments Commissioners were engaged in the selection of a person or persons to be recommended for appointment to an office of medical superintendent officer of health for a county borough, such selection shall be completed in such manner as the said Commissioners shall think proper, and the person or one of the persons so selected and recommended by the said Commissioners for appointment shall be appointed by the corporation of such county borough to be city medical officer for such county borough as if the said selection and recommendation were made on a request made by such corporation after the commencement of this section under section 6 of the Act of 1926.