Adaptation of Enactments (Births, Deaths and Marriages) Order, 1923.

1. The Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act, 1863, the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880, and the Registration of Marriages (Ireland) Act, 1863, shall be and the same are hereby adapted as follows, that is to say:—

(i) wherever the context shall admit, references in the said Acts to:—

(

a

) a Board of Guardians,

(

b

) a Poor Law Union,

(

c

) the Clerk of the Union

shall be read and construed as if they included respectively references to:—

(

a

) a County Board of Health;

(

b

) the Area for which a County Board of Health is appointed;

(

c

) such officer of a County Board of Health as shall be designated by the Minister for Local Government.

(ii) other words or expressions used in the said Acts having a like meaning shall be read and construed accordingly.

This Order may be cited as the Adaptation of Enactments (Births, Deaths and Marriages) Order, 1923.

GIVEN under My Seal of Office, this Tenth day of October, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-three.

(Signed) EARNÁN DE BLAGHD,

Minister for Local Government.

MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. 10/10/1923: ADAPTATION OF ENACTMENTS (BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES) ORDER, 1923

[Extract from

Iris Oifigiúil

of November 2, 1923.]

No. 14,377/19233.

TO each County Board of Health; and to all whom it may concern

WHEREAS it is provided amongst other things by

Section 20

of the

Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923

, (hereinafter referred to as " the Act ") that I, the Minister for Local Government, may by order make such adaptations of any existing enactment relating to any matter dealt with or affected by the Act as appear to me to be necessary or expedient for carrying into effect the Act or the County Scheme made thereunder

And whereas it appears to me, the Minister for Local Government necessary and expedient for the purpose of carrying into effect the Act and the County Schemes made thereunder to make the adaptations hereinafter appearing in the several enactments hereinafter specified being existing enactments relating to matters affected by the Act

Now therefore I, the Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said section 20 of the Act, do by this my Order, order as follows:—