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44 1935

CORK FEVER HOSPITAL ACT, 1935

PART II.

Commencement of Part III of this Act.

Submission by the Corporation of scheme for establishment of new fever hospital in or near Cork city.

5. —(1) The Corporation may, if they think fit, prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme (in this Act referred to as the scheme) for the erection, and establishment of a new fever hospital (including accommodation for the staff thereof) in or near the city of Cork.

(2) The scheme shall—

(a) specify the proposed site of the hospital,

(b) incorporate the plans and specifications of the proposed hospital (including accommodation for the staff thereof), and

(c) state the estimated cost of carrying out the scheme.

(3) The Minister may, on receipt of the scheme, either, approve of the scheme without modification or approve of the scheme with such modifications as he shall think fit, or refuse to approve of the scheme.

(4) For the purposes of the Cork City Management Act, 1929 (No. 1 of 1929) the preparation of the scheme under this section shall be a reserved function.

(5) Any expenses incurred by the Corporation under this section shall, in case Part III of this Act does not come into operation, be raised and defrayed by the Corporation in like manner in which expenses incurred by the Corporation in the execution of the Public Health Acts, 1878 to 1931, are raised and defrayed.

Commencement of Part III of this Act.

6. —(1) If within two years after the passing of this Act—

(a) the scheme is approved of by the Minister under the immediately preceding section, and

(b) there is made, under section 25 of the Public Hospitals Act, 1933 (No. 18 of 1933), to the Corporation for the benefit of the hospital to which the scheme relates a grant out of the Hospitals Trust Fund of an amount not less than one half of the estimated cost, as stated in the scheme, as so approved, of carrying out the scheme, and for all or any of the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) (b) (c) and (d) of sub-section (7) of the said section 25 ,

the Minister shall by order declare that Part III of this Act shall come into operation as from a date specified in such order, and upon such order being made the said Part III shall come into operation on the date so specified.

(2) Part III of this Act shall not come into operation save by virtue of an order made under the immediately preceding sub-section.