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Number 9 of 1960.

HEALTH AUTHORITIES ACT, 1960.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Interpretation.
2.	Dublin Health Authority.
3.	Cork Health Authority.
4.	Limerick Health Authority.
5.	Waterford Health Authority.
6.	General provisions relating to authority.
7.	Performance of certain functions.
8.	Application of certain Acts.
9.	Amendment of meaning of “health authority” .
10.	Local committees.
11.	Expenses generally.
12.	Transitional provisions with respect to expenses.
13.	Estimate of expenses and estimates meeting.
14.	Application of Health Services (Financial Provisions) Act, 1947.
15.	Dissolutions and consequential provisions.
16.	Transfers of certain property.
17.	Transfer of certain officers and continuation of certain contracts of service.
18.	Chief Executive Officer of the Dublin Health Authority.
19.	Chief Medical Officer.
20.	Special provisions for certain appointments.
21.	Assignment and performance of duties under sanitary authorities.
22.	General duty under Part IV of Mental Treatment Act, 1945.
23.	Certain functions to be reserved functions.
24.	Miscellaneous amendments.
25.	County of Wicklow ceasing to be in functional area of Dublin Health Authority for provisions of mental treatment.
26.	Laying of regulations before Houses of Oireachtas.
27.	Adaptation of enactments.
28.	Expenses of the Minister.
29.	Repeals (Mental Treatment Act, 1945).
30.	Commencement.
31.	Short title.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Rules in relation to Membership and Meetings of Health Authorities established by this Act

SECOND SCHEDULE

Sections substituted for Sections 9 and 10 of City and County Management (Amendment) Act, 1955

THIRD SCHEDULE

Provisions consequential on the Dissolution of certain Boards

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Reserved Property

Acts Referred to
Public Assistance Act, 1939	1939, No. 27.
Children (Amendment) Act, 1957	1957, No. 28.
State Lands (Workhouses) Act, 1930	1930, No. 9.
Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934	1934, No. 14.
Midwives Act, 1944	1944, No. 10.
Nurses Act, 1950	1950, No. 27.
Housing (Amendment) Act, 1946	1946, No. 2.
Adoption Act, 1952	1952, No. 25.
Local Authorities (Combined Purchasing) Act, 1925	1925, No. 20.
Juries Act, 1927	1927, No. 23.
Local Authorities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1936	1936, No. 55.
Local Authorities (Combined Purchasing) Act, 1939	1939, No. 14.
Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926	1926, No. 39.
Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) (Amendment) Act, 1940	1940, No. 15.
Local Government Act, 1941	1941, No. 23.
County Management Act, 1940	1940, No. 12.
City and County Management (Amendment) Act, 1955	1955, No. 12.
City and County Management (Amendment) Act, 1955	1955, No. 13.
Health Services (Financial Provisions) Act, 1947	1947, No. 47.
Dublin Fever Hospital Act, 1936	1936, No. 21.
Local Government Act, 1946	1946, No. 24.
Health Act, 1947	1947, No. 28.
Mental Treatment Act, 1945	1945, No. 19.
Health Act, 1953	1953, No. 26.
Waterford Infirmary Act, 1896	1896, c. 37.
Local Government Act, 1898	1898, c. xxii.
Turberculosis (Establishment of Sanatoria) Act, 1945	1945, No. 4.
Health Authorities Act, 1960	1960, No. 4.
Meath Hospital Act, 1951	1951, No. 5.

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Number 9 of 1960.

HEALTH AUTHORITIES ACT, 1960.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DUBLIN HEALTH AUTHORITY, THE CORK HEALTH AUTHORITY, THE LIMERICK HEALTH AUTHORITY AND THE WATERFORD HEALTH AUTHORITY, TO PROVIDE, WITH RESPECT TO THE GENERAL DUTY TO PROVIDE TREATMENT, MAINTENANCE, ADVICE AND SERVICES WHICH IS IMPOSED ON MENTAL HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES BY PART IV OF THE MENTAL TREATMENT ACT, 1945 , FOR THAT DUTY BECOMING THE DUTY OF HEALTH AUTHORITIES, TO AMEND AND EXTEND CERTAIN ENACTMENTS AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [12th April, 1960.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

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