S.I. No. 75/1950:

COOTEHILL URBAN DISTRICT (DE-URBANISATION) ORDER, 1950.

COOTEHILL URBAN DISTRICT (DE-URBANISATION) ORDER, 1950.

WHEREAS the Council of the Urban District of Cootehill (hereinafter called " the Urban Council ") have applied to the Minister for Local Government (hereinafter called " the Minister ") for an order under Section 74 of the Local Government Act, 1925 , adding the Urban District of Cootehill to the County Health District of Cavan.

AND WHEREAS the Urban District of Cootehill is not a borough and adjoins the County Health District of Cavan, being a county health district situate in the same county as the said Urban District :

AND WHEREAS the Minister has considered the said application and any representations that have been made to him in relation thereto :

NOW THEREFORE the Minister in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 74 of the Local Government Act, 1925 , and of all other powers in this behalf enabling him hereby orders as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Cootehill Urban District (De-Urbanisation) Order, 1950.

2. The Urban District of Cootehill shall be added to the County Health District of Cavan and shall cease to be an urban sanitary district under the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 as amended by subsequent enactments.

3. The business of the Urban Council in relation to public works as defined in the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, shall be transferred to the Council of the County of Cavan.

4.--(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order any adjustment of property, rights and liabilities which may become necessary for the full and effectual carrying out of this Order as between the Town Commissioners of the Town of Cootehill and the Council of the County of Cavan or as between the said Town Commissioners and any other body or persons whatsoever shall be made by such persons as shall be appointed for the purpose by the Minister.

(2) The provisions of sub-articles (2), (4) and (5) of Article 30 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, shall with the necessary modifications apply for the purposes of any such adjustment as aforesaid in like manner as they apply to an agreement under the said Article.

(3) A duly certified copy of any such adjustment shall be deposited by the Secretary of the Council of the County of Cavan with the Minister within one month from the date on which the same is finally made.

5. All debts due to the Urban Council on foot of rates made by the Urban Council shall be transferred to and become the property of the Council of the County of Cavan subject, however, to any adjustment that may be made under Article 4 of this Order.

6.--(1) The property of the Urban Council, consisting of houses provided and lands acquired under and for the purposes of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1948, shall be transferred to and become the property of the Town Commissioners of the Town of Cootehill in like manner as if such houses and lands had been provided and acquired by such Town Commissioners under these enactments.

(2) The indebtedness of the Urban Council on foot of loans borrowed by the Urban Council for the purposes of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1948, shall be transferred to and become a liability of the Town Commissioners of the Town of Cootehill in like manner as if such loans had been borrowed by the said Town Commissioners under and for the purposes of those enactments and such loans shall stand charged upon the county rate of the County of Cavan.

7.--(1) The property of the Urban Council consisting of water and sewerage systems shall be transferred to and become the property of the Council of the County of Cavan.

(2) The indebtedness of the Urban Council on foot of a loan borrowed by the Urban Council for the purposes of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1948, shall be transferred to and become a liability of the Council of the County of Cavan in like manner as if such loan had been borrowed by the said County Council under and for the purposes of the said Acts.

8. The revised valuation list transmitted by the Commissioner of Valuation to the Urban Council last before the commencement of this Order shall be transferred to the Council of the County of Cavan and the last mentioned Council shall make the county rate and assess the town charges of the Town of Cootehill in accordance with the said revised list.

9. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1950.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this twenty-seventh day of March, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty.

(Signed) MICHAEL J. KEYES,

Minister for Local Government.