Employment of Children Act, 1903

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Application to Ireland.

41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.

16. In the application of this Act to Ireland—

(1) The Lord Lieutenant shall be substituted for the Secretary of State:

(2) The expression “local authority” means, in the case of an urban district with a population, according to the census of nineteen hundred and one, of over five thousand, the district council and elsewhere the county council:

(3) Proceedings under this Act may be brought by or in the name of any officer of the local authority or by an officer of a school attendance committee or by a constable:

(4) All expenses and costs to be incurred by a local authority in the execution of this Act shall be defrayed, in the case of the council of a county borough or of a district council, out of any rate or fund applicable to the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, and, in the case of a county council, out of the county fund, and in such case the amount required therefor may be raised by means of the poor rate equally over so much of the county as does not comprise any urban district the council whereof is constituted a local authority under this Act.