Nurses Act, 1961

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR No. 18/1961
• Year: 1961

Number 18 of 1961.
NURSES ACT, 1961.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section 1. Principal Act. 2. Nurses who may vote at elections of members of the Board. 3. Expenses of members who perform functions on behalf of the Board. 4. Annual grants towards expenses of the Board. 5. Revenue from fees. 6. Information by the Board. 7. Appointment and term of office of president of the Board. 8. Repeals. 9. Short title, construction and collective citation.
SCHEDULE.
Enactments Repealed.
Acts Referred to Midwives Act, 1944 No. 10 of 1944 Nurses Act, 1950 No. 27 of 1950
Number 18 of 1961.
NURSES ACT, 1961.
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE NURSES ACT, 1950 , AND TO REPEAL SECTION 44 OF THE MID WIVES ACT, 1944 . [11th July, 1961.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
	Principal Act.	1.—In this Act “the Principal Act” means the Nurses Act, 1950 .
	Nurses who may vote at elections of members of the Board.	2.—(1) Rules made for the purposes of section 13 of the Principal Act may specify the class or classes of nurses who may vote in the election of the person or persons specified in any of the paragraphs of subsection (2) of that section.
	(2) The Nurses Rules, 1953, and the elections held before the passing of this Act in accordance with those Rules shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, as valid for all purposes as if subsection (1) of this section had been enacted before those Rules were made.
	Expenses of members who perform functions on behalf of the Board.	3.—Where a member of the Board or of the Committee or any other committee of the Board performs any function on behalf of the Board, the Board may pay to him his travelling and subsistence expenses and the payments shall be in accordance with a scale approved of by the Minister after consultation with the Minister for Finance.
	Annual grants towards expenses of the Board.	4.—(1) The Minister shall make annual grants towards the expenses of the Board.
	(2) A grant under this section—
	(a) shall be of such amount as the Minister determines in consultation with the Minister for Finance and the Board, and
	(b) shall be made out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.
	(3) The provisions of section 60 of the Principal Act shall apply to a grant under this section and, for that purpose, the references in that section to a balance under section 59 of the Principal Act shall be construed as references to a grant under this section.
	Revenue from fees.	5.—Where fees referred to in section 24 of the Principal Act are chargeable, the Board shall from time to time by rules so fix their amount that, taking one year with another, the revenue from them is sufficient to meet the Board's expenditure (other than such part of that expenditure as may be determined by the Minister).
	Information by the Board.	6.—The Board shall furnish to the Minister at such times and in such form as the Minister may request such information, with regard to the performance of their functions, as the Minister may require.
	Appointment and term of office of president of the Board.	7.—(1) The Minister shall, as soon as may be after the expiration of every election year, appoint one of the members of the Board to be president thereof.
	(2) Where the office of...