County Management Act, 1940

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Number 12 of 1940.


COUNTY MANAGEMENT ACT, 1940.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definitions.

2.

Commencement.

3.

The office of county manager.

4.

Appointment of county managers.

5.

Tenure of office of county manager.

6.

Suspension and removal of county manager.

7.

Managers for elective bodies.

8.

Managers for joint bodies.

9.

Power of Minister to provide for assistant county managers.

10.

Dublin Assistant City Managers.

11.

The offices of assistant county manager and of Dublin Assistant City Manager.

12.

First appointments of certain assistant managers.

13.

Delegation by county manager to assistant county manager.

14.

Payments by Dublin County Council to Dublin Corporation.

15.

Deputy county managers.

16.

Reserved functions.

17.

Executive functions.

18.

Committees of county councils and elective bodies.

19.

Acting of county manager by signed order.

20.

Control, etc., of officers and servants of a county council or an elective body.

21.

Authorisation of payments.

22.

Estimate of expenses of a county council.

23.

Estimate of expenses of an elective body.

24.

Estimates meetings.

25.

Limitation on expenditure.

26.

Preparation of plans, etc.

27.

Furnishing of information to county councils and elective bodies.

28.

Reception and examination of tenders.

29.

Requisition of a county council or an elective body that a particular thing be done.

30.

Attendance, etc., of county manager at meetings of county council and of elective bodies.

31.

Advisory functions of county manager.

32.

Legal proceedings.

33.

Transfer of functions from the councils to the corporations of boroughs.

34.

District mental hospitals.

35.

Appointment by county councils and elective bodies of members of certain public bodies.

36.

Dissolution of boards of health.

37.

Adaptation of enactments relating to county councils.

38.

Adaptation of enactments relating to elective bodies.

39.

Expenses.

40.

Partial repeal of the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930.

41.

Short title.


FIRST SCHEDULE.

Grouping of Certain Counties.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Matters in respect of which the Powers, Functions, and Duties are Reserved Functions.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Provisions Consequential on the Dissolution of Boards of Health.


Acts Referred to

Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926

No. 39 of 1926

Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

No. 27 of 1930

Local Government Act, 1925

No. 5 of 1925

Local Elections Act, 1927

No. 39 of 1927

Vocational Education Act, 1930

No. 29 of 1930

Agriculture Act, 1931

No. 8 of 1931

Public Assistance Act, 1939

No. 27 of 1939

Town and Regional Planning Act, 1934

No. 22 of 1934

Local Authorities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1936

No. 55 of 1936

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931

No. 50 of 1931

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Number 12 of 1940.


COUNTY MANAGEMENT ACT, 1940.


AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER AND BETTER PROVISION FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF COUNTIES AND CERTAIN OTHER AREAS AND FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE BUSINESS OF COUNTY COUNCILS AND OF CERTAIN OTHER LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND TO PROVIDE FOR DIVERS MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [13th June, 1940.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: