S.I. No. 198/1962:

PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT, 1878 (SECTIONS 128, 129 AND 130) (COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT OF GALWAY) ORDER, 1962.

PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT, 1878 (SECTIONS 128, 129 AND 130) (COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT OF GALWAY) ORDER, 1962.

The Minister for Local Government, on the application of the Council of the County of Galway, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 1 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vic. c.54) hereby declares and orders as follows :--

1. This Order may be cited as the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 (Sections 128, 129 and 130) (County Health District of Galway) Order, 1962.

2. The provisions of sections 128, 129 and 130 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vic. c.52) shall be in force in the County Health District of Galway as and from the 1st day of January 1963 and the Council of the County of Galway is hereby invested with all the powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities and obligations of an urban district council under the said sections 128, 129 and 130 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, to be exercised and to attach within the said County Health District.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Twentieth day of November, 1962.

NEIL T. BLANEY

Minister for Local Government

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The effect of this Order is to bring sections 128, 129 and 130 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 into force in the County Health District of Galway. These sections render liable to penalties a person who establishes or carries on an unauthorised offensive trade, authorise the Council of the County of Galway to make bye-laws with respect to offensive trades and impose a duty on the said Council to institute court proceedings in respect of a nuisance or injury to health caused by an offensive trade.