Health Act, 1947

Health inspectors.

75.—(1) A health authority may, with the consent of the Minister and shall if the Minister by order so directs, appoint one or more than one health inspector to perform such duties as may be assigned to him in relation to the functions of such health authority and the functions of any sanitary authority in the functional area of such health authority.

(2) The office of health inspector shall be an office under the health authority and the remuneration and expenses of the office shall be paid by the said authority but the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 10, and of section 20 of the Act of 1941 relating to the duties of officers and of subsection (2) of the said section 10 relating to appeals by officers shall apply in relation to the said office as if it were also an office under the sanitary authority of every sanitary district in the functional area of such health authority.

(3) The following provisions shall apply in relation to a person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held, in a permanent capacity, an office under the title of sanitary inspector under a sanitary authority—

(a) such person shall, upon the commencement of this section, become and be a health inspector for the health authority in whose functional area the district of the sanitary authority is situated under an order deemed to have been made 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.

(4) 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 sanitary inspector under a sanitary authority, such selection shall be completed in such manner as the said Commissioners 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 health authority in whose functional area the district of such sanitary authority is situated to be a health inspector of such health authority as if the said selection and recommendation were made on a request made by such health authority after the commencement of this section under section 6 of the Act of 1926.