S.I. No. 265/1958 - Maternity and Child Health Services (Amendment) Regulations, 1958.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Maternity and Child Health Services (Amendment) Regulations, 1958.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 29th day of December, 1958.

3. In these Regulations

" the Principal Regulations " means the Maternity and Child Health Services Regulations, 1954 (

S.I. No. 98 of 1954

) ;

" the Regulations of 1956 " means the Maternity and Child Health Services (Amendment) Regulations, 1956 (

S.I. No. 44 of 1956

).

4. The Principal Regulations shall be amended by the substitution of " eight hundred pounds " for " six hundred pounds " in sub-article (6) of article 10, in sub-article (4) of article 17, in sub-article (3) of article 20 and in sub-article (4) of article 22.

5. Each reference in the Principal Regulations or in the Regulations of 1956 to

section 15

of the

Health Act, 1953

(No. 26 of 1953), shall be construed as a reference to that section as amended by the

Health and Mental Treatment (Amendment) Act, 1958

(No. 37 of 1958).

6. "

Social Welfare Act, 1952

, (as amended) " shall be substituted for "

Social Welfare Act, 1952

" in Forms MCA, MCB and MCD, in the Schedule to the Regulations of 1956.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twenty-third day of December One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-eight.

SEÁN MACENTEE,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations make amendments in the regulations governing the Maternity and Child Health Services arising from the alterations in the classes eligible for these services made by the

Health and Mental Treatment (Amendment) Act, 1958

and the

Social Welfare (Amendment) Act, 1958

.

S.I. No. 265 of 1958.

MATERNITY AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1958.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

section 5

of the

Health Act, 1947

(No. 28 of 1947), and

section 22

of the

Health Act, 1953

(No. 26 of 1953) (as amended by

section 2

of the

Health Act, 1954

) (No. 23 of 1954), hereby makes the following regulations