Health (Eastern Regional Health Authority) Act, 1999
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PARTII The Eastern Regional Health Authority | ||
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Establishment of Eastern Regional Health Authority. |
7.—(1) There shall stand established on the establishment day a body to be known as the Eastern Regional Health Authority, and in this Act referred to as “the Authority”. | |
(2) The Authority shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in its own name and may acquire, hold and dispose of land and other property. | ||
(3) The Authority shall provide itself with a seal and all courts of justice shall take judicial notice of the seal. | ||
(4) The functional area of the Authority shall be the county borough of Dublin and the administrative counties South Dublin, Fingal, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Kildare and Wicklow. | ||
(5) Subject to this Act, any reference to a health board, however expressed, in any Act, passed before the establishment day, or instrument made before such day under any such Act, shall be construed as including a reference to the Authority. | ||
(6) Sections 4, 5 and 26(1) of the Principal Act and section 65 of the Health Act, 1953 , shall not apply to the Authority. |