Health Authorities Act, 1960

Chief Medical Officer.

19.—(1) There is hereby established the office of chief medical officer under a health authority established by this Act and the title of holders of that office shall be__________Chief Medical Officer (with a reference to the relevant area prefixed).

(2) The chief medical officer under a health authority established by this Act shall advise the health authority generally in relation to the health of the people and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him in relation to the functions of the health authority or the functions of any sanitary authority in the functional area of the health authority.

(3) The provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 10 and section 20 of the Local Government Act, 1941 , relating to the duties of officers and of subsections (2) and (6) of the said section 10 relating to appeals shall apply in relation to the office of chief medical officer under a health authority established by this Act as if it were also an office under the sanitary authority of every sanitary district in the functional area of that health authority.

(4) The expression “chief medical officer” in the Health Act, 1947 , shall include a chief medical officer under a health authority established by this Act.

(5) On the commencement with respect to a health authority of this section—

(a) section 69 of the Health Act, 1947 , shall cease to apply to the county in the functional area of the health authority, and

(b) section 71 of that Act shall cease to apply to the county borough in that area.

(6) The following provisions shall apply in relation to a person who, immediately before the commencement with respect to a health authority established by this Act of this section, held, in a permanent capacity, either the office of city medical officer for the county borough the corporation of which appoint members of the health authority or the office of county medical officer for the county the council of which appoint members thereof—

(a) such person shall, upon such commencement, become and be the chief medical officer under this section of the health authority,

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

(7) The following provisions shall apply in relation to a person who, immediately before the commencement with respect to a health authority established by this Act of this section, stood transferred to the service of the health authority in accordance with this Act, being a person who, immediately before that transfer, held, in a permanent capacity, either the office of city medical officer for the county borough the corporation of which appoint members of the health authority or the office of county medical officer for the county the council of which appoint members thereof—

(a) such person shall, upon such commencement, become and be the chief medical officer under this section of the health authority,

(b) such person shall cease to hold the office which, immediately before such commencement, he held under the health authority, but that office shall, for the purposes of any enactment relating to superannuation, be deemed not to have been abolished.