S.I. No. 43/1963:

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1941 (APPROPRIATE MINISTER FOR CIVIL DEFENCE OFFICES) ORDER, 1963

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1941 (APPROPRIATE MINISTER FOR CIVIL DEFENCE OFFICES) ORDER, 1963

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers vested in him by subsection (2) of section 8 of the Local Government Act, 1941 (No. 23 of 1941), hereby orders as follows:--

1. The Minister for Defence shall be the appropriate Minister for the purposes of Part II of the Local Government Act, 1941 , in relation to any office under a local authority, the duties of which relate solely to the functions of a local authority in relation to Civil Defence (other than the office of staff officer, clerical officer, clerk typist or other office the duties of which are wholly of a clerical nature) and in relation to holders thereof.

2. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act, 1941 (Appropriate Minister for Civil Defence Offices) Order, 1963.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Twenty-first day of March, 1963.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

The Minister for Defence hereby consents to the foregoing Order.

Dated this 21st day of March, 1963.

GEARÓID MAC PHARTHALÁIN,

Minister for Defence.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The effect of this Order is to designate the Minister for Defence as the appropriate Minister for the purposes of Part II of the Local Government Act, 1941 , in relation to offices, the duties of which relate to Civil Defence, under a local authority (other than offices of a wholly clerical nature