S.I. No. 310/1970 - Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 (Section 54) (County Health District of Dublin) Order, 1970.

1. This Order may be cited as the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 (Section 54) (County Health District of Dublin) Order, 1970.

2. The provisions of section 54 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 shall be in force in the County Health District of Dublin from the 1st day of January, 1971 and the Council of the County of Dublin is hereby invested with all the powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities and obligations of an urban district council under the said section of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, to be exercised and to attach within the said County Health District.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government

this 29th day of December, 1970.

ROBERT MOLLOY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of this Order is to bring section 54 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 into force in the County Health District of Dublin. Section 54 enables a sanitary authority to make byelaws for the regulation of the keeping of animals on any premises or for the prevention of the keeping of such animals so as to be injurious to health. It also enables byelaws to be made for the prevention of nuisances arising from snow and from rubbish.

S.I. No. 310 of 1970.

PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT, 1878 (SECTION 54) (COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT OF DUBLIN) ORDER, 1970.

The Minister for Local Government, on the application of the Council of the County of Dublin, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 1 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896 hereby declares and orders as follows:—