S.I. No. 60/1953:

OIFIG AN ARD-CHLARAITHEORA (HOURS OF BUSINESS) REGULATIONS, 1953.

OIFIG AN ARD-CHLARAITHEORA (HOURS OF BUSINESS) REGULATIONS, 1953.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 of the Vital Statistics and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1952 (No. 8 of 1952), hereby makes the following Regulations :--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheora (Hours of Business) Regulations, 1953.

2. In these Regulations, " public holiday " means--

(a) Christmas Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the 27th day of December, and

(b) St. Stephen's Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the next following Monday, and

(c) St. Patrick's Day when it falls on a weekday or, when it falls on a Sunday, the next following Monday, and

(d) Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday and the first Monday in August.

3. Every person shall be entitled to make the searches of the indexes of the registers referred to in section 70 of the Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1844, section 50 of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act, 1863, and section 17 of the Registration of Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1863, during the following periods on any of the following days, other than a day which is a public holiday :--

Mondays to Fridays: 10 a.m to 4:30 p.m.

Saturdays : 10 a.m to 12:30 p.m.

4. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 16th day of February, 1953.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this ninth day of February, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-three.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Health.