21/09/1927:

THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES (MUTUAL ASSURANCE) ACT, 1926.

THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES (MUTUAL ASSURANCE) ACT, 1926.

No. 39, 291/1927.

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Local Authorities (Mutual Assurance) Act, 1926 , it is enacted as follows :—

(1) A local authority may join in promoting a company to which it is intended that this Act shall apply and any local authority may become and be a member of a company to which this Act applies.

(2) When a local authority is a member of a company to which this Act applies, the right of voting and every other right or power incidental to such membership may be exercised on behalf of such local authority by one of their members or officers or any other person authorised in that behalf by them.

(3) A local authority which is a member of a company to which this Act applies may be a director of such company and in every such case the functions of the local authority as such director shall be performed by one of their members or officers or any other person authorised in that behalf by them.

(4) A local authority may pay subsistence allowance and travelling expenses in accordance with regulations to be made by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health to any of their members or officers attending on behalf of such local authority any meeting of the promoters, members or directors of a company to which this Act applies.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health in exercise of the powers vested in me as aforesaid do by this my Order make the following regulations :—

1. This Order may be referred to as the Local Authorities Mutual Assurance (Expenses of Meetings) Order, 1927.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , shall apply to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. A local authority may pay to such one of their members or officers who may be authorised by them in pursuance of the Act to attend on their behalf a meeting of the members or directors of a company to which the Act applies such reasonable subsistence allowance and reasonable travelling expenses in respect of the attendance of such member or officer at any such meeting as the local authority may determine.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office, this Twenty-first

day of September in the Year of Our Lord One

Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-seven.

(Signed) RISTEÁRD UA MAOLCHATHA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.