S.I. No. 216/1948:

COUNTY COUNCILS (PURCHASE OF MARKETS AND FAIRS) ORDER, 1948.

COUNTY COUNCILS (PURCHASE OF MARKETS AND FAIRS) ORDER, 1948.

WHEREAS by sub-section (2) of Section 33 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 (in this Order referred to as " the said sub-section") it is provided that rural district councils should have such powers and duties of urban sanitary authorities under the Public Health Acts or any other Act as the Minister for Local Government (hereinafter called " the Minister ") by general order directs :

AND WHEREAS the powers, functions and duties of rural district councils are now vested in County Councils :

AND WHEREAS by Section 104 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 it is provided that any urban sanitary authority may purchase from any market company all the rights, powers and privileges and all or any of the markets, premises and things which are the property of the company:

AND WHEREAS by Section 31 of the Local Government Act, 1898 it is provided that the power conferred by Section 104 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 upon an urban sanitary authority to purchase a market from a market company shall extend to authorise the purchase from any person of any franchise or right to hold a market or fair whether under Act, letters patent or otherwise :

NOW THEREFORE the Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said sub-section hereby orders and directs as follows :--

(1) This Order may be cited as the County Councils (Purchase of Markets and Fairs) Order, 1948.

(2) County Councils shall have such of the powers and duties of urban sanitary authorities as are provided by Section 104 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 as amended by Section 31 of the Local Government Act, 1898.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this seventeenth day of June, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.

(Signed) T. J. MURPHY,

Minister for Local Government