County Management Act, 1940

Delegation by county manager to assistant county manager.

13.—(1) The county manager for a county for which there is or are an assistant county manager or two or more assistant county managers may delegate to such assistant county manager or to any of such assistant county managers such of his powers, functions and duties (whether as county manager for such county or as manager for an elective body) as he shall think proper.

(2) A county manager may revoke a delegation made by him under the foregoing sub-section of this section.

(3) The provisions of this Act in relation to the doing by a county manager of acts and things for the council of his county which, if done by such council, would be required by law (other than this Act) to be done by resolution of such council shall apply and have effect in relation to the making or revoking of a delegation under the foregoing provisions of this section.

(4) Whenever and so long as any power, function or duty it delegated under this section by a county manager to an assistant county manager, the following provisions shall apply and have effect, that is to say:—

(a) such power, function or duty shall be exercised or performed by such assistant county manager in lieu of such county manager;

(b) such power, function or duty shall be exercised or performed by such assistant county manager under the general direction and control of such county manager;

(c) every provision of this Act or of any order or regulation made under this Act which confers powers or functions or imposes duties on a county manager or on the manager for an elective body or regulates the manner in which any power, function or duty of a county manager or the manager for an elective body is to be exercised or performed shall, if and in so far as it is applicable to the power, function or duty so delegated, apply and have effect in relation to that power, function or duty with the substitution of such assistant county manager for the county manager or the manager for such elective body, as the case may be.

(5) The foregoing sub-sections of this section shall apply and have effect in relation to the county borough of Dublin as if the county borough of Dublin were a county and the Dublin City Manager and the Dublin Assistant City Managers were respectively county manager and assistant county managers for that county and as if a reference to section 60 of the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930 (No. 27 of 1930), were substituted for the reference to the provisions of this Act in relation to the doing by a county manager of acts and things for the council of his county.