Central Midwives Board Order, 1923

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 9/1923
• Year: 1923

1923. No. 9.

CENTRAL MIDWIVES BOARD ORDER, 1923.

WHEREAS by Section 7 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), the Executive Council is empowered to establish by order boards of commissioners to exercise in Saorstát Eireann the functions which were on the 6th day of December, 1921, exercisable in the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann by any statutory board of commissioners or other statutory body to which the said section applies and which was in existence on the date aforesaid and had jurisdictions, powers, and duties extending to the whole of the late United Kingdom or to any part thereof which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann.

AND WHEREAS it is provided by the said Section 7 that whenever the Executive Council establishes under that section any board of commissioners, the Executive Council shall by the Order establishing such board apply to such board with such adaptations and modifications as may be necessary, the several British statutes regulating the boards of commissioners or other body or bodies whose, or any of whose, jurisdictions, powers, or duties are by such Order conferred or imposed on such boards :

AND WHEREAS the said Section 7 applies to any statutory board of commissioners or other statutory board or body exercising any function of government or discharging any public duties in relation to public administration :

AND WHEREAS the Central Midwives Board for Ireland is a Statutory Board of Commissioners exercising functions of government or discharging public duties in relation to public administration and was in existence on the 6th day of December, 1921, and had jurisdiction, powers, and duties extending to the whole of Ireland :

AND WHEREAS it is necessary to make provisions for the exercise in Saorstát Eireann of the functions which were on the 6th day of December, 1921, exercisable by the Central Midwives Board for Ireland in the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann :

NOW THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, in exercise of the several powers conferred on them by the said Section 7 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling do hereby order as follows :— 1. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the " Central Midwives Board Order, 1923 " (No. 9 of 1923). 2. In this order the expression " British Statute " means Act of Parliament of the late United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which was on the 6th...