OFFALLY COUNTY SCHEME AMENDMENT ORDER, 1924.

COUNTY SCHEME ORDER, OFFALY (AMENDMENT), 1924.

COUNTY SCHEME ORDER, OFFALY (AMENDMENT), 1924.

No. 46,450/1924.

THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1923 .

OFFALY COUNTY SCHEME.

To the Council of the Administrative County of Offaly; and to the Offaly County Board of Health; and to all whom it may concern:

WHEREAS by an order under my Seal of Office bearing date the 28th day of June, 1923, called the Offaly County Scheme Order, 1923, I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in pursuance of section 5 of the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") did amend and modify the existing County Scheme relating to the Administrative County of Offaly as set out in the Schedule to and as confirmed by the Act in such way as to bring it into conformity with the provisions of the Scheme set out in the Schedule to the said Order and did substitute the said provisions for the provisions of the said existing County Scheme (which said first-mentioned provisions are in the said Order and this Order referred to as the Offaly County Scheme):

AND WHEREAS the Offaly County Scheme has come into operation, and, I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, deem it necessary in pursuance of section 5 of the Act, to amend the Offaly County Scheme by the substitution of a new paragraph for paragraph (a), sub-Article (i) of Article 15 thereof, and did on the 27th day of October, 1924, give to the Council of the Administrative County of Offaly, one month's notice of my intention to make the said amendment and have taken into consideration any representation which has been made to me by the said Council within such month in respect of the said amendment:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers given to me by section 5 of the Act, the said month having expired, do by this my Order, order and direct as follows, that is to say:

1. From and after the date hereof the Offaly County Scheme shall be amended and modified by the substitution therein for paragraph (a} of sub-Article (i) of Article 15 thereof of the following paragraph:

(a) A County Home at Tullamore for aged and infirm persons, chronic invalids, unmarried mothers, and children;

2. This Order may be cited as the Offaly County Scheme Amendment Order, 1924.

Given under My Seal of Office, this Thirty-first day of December, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-four.

(Signed), SÉAMUS DE BÚRCA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.