Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Act, 1996

Dissolution of certain bodies.

16.—(1) The Dublin Regional Hospital Board, the Cork Regional Hospital Board and the Galway Regional Hospital Board established under section 41 of the Principal Act and the committees appointed by those Boards are hereby dissolved.

(2) Anything done or purporting to have been done by any person before the coming into operation of this section and in relation to the doing of which a function fell (by virtue of section 41 of the Principal Act, or of a regulation made thereunder) to be performed by a regional hospital board shall be deemed to have been as validly done as if the function had been duly performed by that board.

(3) The local committees established under section 7 of the Principal Act are hereby dissolved.

(4) The National Health Council established by section 98 of the Health Act, 1947 , is hereby dissolved.

(5) Anything done or purporting to have been done by any person before the coming into operation of this section and in relation to the doing of which a function fell (by virtue of section 98 of the Health Act, 1947 , or of a regulation made thereunder) to be performed by the National Health Council shall be deemed to have been as validly done as if the function had been duly performed by that Council.