PART III.

The Dublin Fever Hospital.

41. —As soon as the hospital board has held its first meeting in pursuance of this Act, the hospital board shall, with all convenient speed, prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme for the erection and establishment of a new fever hospital (including accommodation for the staff thereof) in or near the city of Dublin, setting out the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) the proposed site of the hospital,

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

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

42. —(1) When a scheme is submitted under the next preceding section by the hospital board to the Minister for his approval, the Minister may by order either (as he shall think proper) approve of such scheme without modification or modify such scheme in such manner (whether by addition, omission or variation) as he shall think proper, and approve of such scheme as so modified, or require a new scheme to be made and submitted to him by the hospital board.

(2) Where the Minister requires under this section a new scheme to be made and submitted to him by the hospital board it shall be the duty of the hospital board to make with all convenient speed a new scheme accordingly and to submit such new scheme to the Minister for his approval and the provisions of this Part of this Act shall have effect as if such new scheme were the first scheme made and submitted by the hospital board in pursuance of this Part of this Act.

(3) In this Part of this Act the expression “the scheme” means the scheme approved of by the Minister under this section.

(4) When the scheme has been approved of by the Minister the Minister shall by order fix a period within which a new fever hospital is to be erected and established in accordance with the scheme.

43. —At any time after the scheme has been approved by the Minister, the Minister may by order made on the application of the hospital board modify the scheme in such manner (whether by addition, omission or variation) as he shall think proper, and from and after the making of an order under this section modifying the scheme the scheme shall have effect as if it had been so modified at the time of its approval by the Minister.

44. —All expenses incurred by the hospital board in relation to the preparation or the modification of the scheme shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be establishment expenses.

45. —(1) After the scheme has been approved by the Minister the hospital board shall proceed to erect and establish within the period fixed by the Minister under this Act a fever hospital to be known as the Dublin Fever Hospital (in this Act referred to as the new fever hospital) and shall provide all necessary equipment for such hospital.

(2) In the erection and establishment of the new fever hospital the hospital board shall comply with the provisions of the scheme.

46. —The new fever hospital shall be controlled and managed by the hospital board, and the hospital board shall, subject to the provisions of this Act (including rules made under this Act), do all such things as may be necessary for that purpose.

47. —The hospital board may, with the consent of the Minister, extend, alter, enlarge or otherwise improve the new fever hospital.

48. —The hospital board may, with the consent of and in accordance with plans approved by the Minister, erect and establish a new convalescent home.

49. —The hospital board may, with the consent of the Minister, extend, alter, enlarge or otherwise improve any new convalescent home established by it under this Part of this Act.

50. —Any new convalescent home established by the hospital board under this Part of this Act shall be controlled and managed by the hospital board, and the hospital board shall, subject to the provisions of this Act (including rules made under this Act), do all such things as may be necessary for that purpose.