S.I. No. 165/1943 - Mental Hospitals (Assistant Medical Officers) Order, 1943.

1. This Order may be cited as the Mental Hospitals (Assistant Medical Officers) Order, 1943.

2. Every holder of the office of assistant medical officer in a district mental hospital who is appointed to such office after the date of this Order, shall cease to hold such office at the expiration of two years after such appointment unless before such expiration such holder has been granted a post graduate diploma or degree in psychological medicine or mental disease by a university or other body, which, under the

Medical Practitioners Act, 1927

, is entitled to hold certifying examinations and grant diplomas for the purpose of the registration of medical practitioners in either the Register or the General Register as defined in that Act.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this Fifth day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forth-three.

(Signed) SEÁN MAC ENTEE,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1943. No. 165.

MENTAL HOSPITALS (ASSISTANT MEDICAL OFFICERS) ORDER, 1943.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph (i) of sub-section (1) of section 19 and sub-section (1) of

section 8

of the

Local Government Act, 1941

, by this his order, makes the following regulations, that is to say:—