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Number 27 of 1930.


LOCAL GOVERNMENT (DUBLIN) ACT, 1930.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PRELIMINARY.

Section

1.

Definitions.

PART I.

REORGANISATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS.

2.

Inclusion of certain urban districts in the city.

3.

Formation of the Borough of Dun Laoghaire.

4.

Transfer of property of abolished bodies.

5.

Transfer of liabilities of abolished bodies.

6.

Transfer of special powers of abolished bodies.

7.

Preservation of continuing contracts.

8.

Continuance of bye-laws, etc.

9.

Continuance of resolutions, etc.

10.

Continuance of pending legal proceedings.

11.

Collection of rates due or accruing to abolished bodies.

12.

Admissibility in evidence of books of abolished bodies.

13.

Audit of accounts of abolished bodies.

14.

Officers of abolished bodies.

15.

Preservation of contracts of service with abolished bodies.

16.

Transfer of county charges from coastal urban districts to the Borough.

17.

Inclusion of certain rural areas in the City.

18.

Preparation of official maps.

19.

Financial adjustments between County Council and City Corporation.

20.

Officers whose duties relate to the added rural area.

21.

Bye-laws, etc., in the added rural area.

22.

Resolutions, etc., relating to the added rural area.

23.

Coroners and under-sheriffs and Jurors Books in the City and County.

24.

Provisions in relation to transferred officers.

25.

Employees of abolished bodies.

26.

Application of agricultural grant.

27.

Future extension of city and borough.

28.

Trusts for benefit of the existing city or an added urban district.

29.

Trusts for the benefit of a coastal urban district.

PART II.

THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY AND THE BOROUGH.

Provisions relating to the city.

30.

Vesting of powers, etc., in the City Corporation.

31.

Constitution of the City Council.

32.

City elections.

33.

Electoral areas in the city.

34.

Register of commercial electors.

35.

Elections of commercial members of the City Council.

36.

Aldermen and councillors of the city.

37.

Meetings of the City Council.

38.

Election and tenure of office of Lord Mayor.

39.

The Dublin City Manager.

40.

Appointment by the City Corporation of members of certain public bodies.

41.

Abolition of certain committees.

Provisions relating to the borough.

42.

Vesting of powers, etc., in the Borough Corporation.

43.

Constitution and election of the Borough Council.

44.

Councillors of the Borough.

45.

Meetings of the Borough Council.

46.

Election and tenure of office of the Chairman.

47.

The Dun Laoghaire Borough Manager.

48.

Appointment by the Borough Corporation of members of certain public bodies.

49.

Superannuation of Borough employees.

Provisions relating to the city and the borough.

50.

Casual vacancies in the Council.

51.

Reserved functions.

52.

Reception and examination of tenders.

53.

Appointment of Manager.

54.

Furnishing of information to the Lord Mayor or Chairman.

55.

Manager to advise the Council.

56.

Preparation of plans, etc., by the manager for the Council.

57.

Attendance, etc., of manager at meetings of the Council.

58.

Requisition by Council that a particular thing be done.

59.

Control, etc., of officers and servants of the Corporation.

60.

Acting of the manager by signed order.

61.

Authorisation of payments.

62.

The municipal fund.

63.

The municipal rate.

64.

Adjustment of rent in certain cases.

65.

Contract water rate.

66.

The police rate.

67.

The bridge rate.

68.

Limitations on the municipal rate.

69.

Rating of certain classes of property.

70.

Application of the Local Government (Rates on Small Dwellings) Act, 1928.

71.

Rates on vacant premises.

72.

Special provisions as to certain classes of property in the City.

73.

Amendment of the municipal rate.

74.

Payment of existing loans.

75.

Power to borrow for certain purposes.

76.

Decoration of the City.

77.

Estimate of expenses and rates meeting.

78.

Appointment of and reference to joint committee of reference.

79.

Deputy Manager.

80.

Legal proceedings.

PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

81.

Election of county councillors to be held.

82.

Abolition of rural district councils in the County.

83.

Officers or rural district councils.

84.

Preservation of contracts of service with Rural District Councils.

85.

Application of the Acts of 1925 and 1927 to the County and the City.

86.

Application of Local Elections Act, 1927.

87.

Amendment of Section 44 of the Act of 1925.

88.

Compensation of officers in certain cases.

89.

Application of the School Attendance Act, 1926.

90.

Provisions in regard to the register of electors.

91.

Administration of Dublin Poor Law Union.

92.

Administration of Rathdown Poor Law Union.

93.

Administration of Balrothery Poor Law Union.

94.

Amendment of county rates.

95.

Audit of Accounts.

96.

Water supply to the Borough.

97.

Maintenance of branch water pipes.

98.

Extension of Howth urban district.

99.

Saving for fishing rights in the River Liffey.

100.

Local inquiries.

101.

Appointment of tribunal to report on boundaries and joint public health services.

102.

Application and adaptation of enactments.

103.

Redundant Private Acts and orders.

104.

The day of election and the appointed day.

105.

Repeals.

106.

Short title.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The added rural area.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Proportionate reductions of valuations.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Enactments repealed.


Acts Referred to

Local Government Act, 1925

No. 5 of 1925

Local Government Act, 1927

No. 3 of 1927

Juries Act, 1927

No. 23 of 1927

Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923

No. 9 of 1923

Local Elections (Dissolved Authorities) Act, 1926

No. 22 of 1926

Local Elections (Dublin) Act, 1929

No. 3 of 1929

Enforcement of Court Orders Act, 1926

No. 18 of 1926

Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925

No. 7 of 1925

Dublin Port and Docks (Bridges) Act, 1929

(No. 2 (Private) of 1929)

Local Government (Rates on Small Dwellings) Act, 1928

No. 4 of 1928

Local Elections Act, 1927

No. 39 of 1927

Local Elections Postponement Act, 1925

No. 42 of 1925

School Attendance Act, 1926

No. 17 of 1926

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Number 27 of 1930.


LOCAL GOVERNMENT (DUBLIN) ACT, 1930.


AN ACT TO EXTEND THE AREA OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN BY INCLUDING THEREIN THE URBAN DISTRICT OF PEMBROKE, THE URBAN DISTRICT OF RATHMINES AND RATHGAR, AND CERTAIN RURAL AREAS, TO ESTABLISH A NEW BOROUGH COMPRISING THE URBAN DISTRICTS OF BLACKROCK, DUN LAOGHAIRE, DALKEY, AND KILLINEY AND BALLYBRACK, TO REGULATE AND AMEND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN AS SO EXTENDED AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN, TO ESTABLISH AND REGULATE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF THE SAID NEW BOROUGH, AND TO MAKE PROVISION FOR DIVERS MATTERS CONNECTED WITH OR INCIDENTAL TO THE SEVERAL MATTERS AFORESAID. [17th July, 1930.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

PRELIMINARY.

Definitions.

1. —In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health;

the word “prescribed” means prescribed by the Minister;

the expression “the City” in relation to any time or period or anything done or to be done or an event happening before the appointed day means the Existing City and in relation to the appointed day or any time or period after the appointed day or anything done or to be done or an event happening on or after the appointed day means the county borough of Dublin as for the time being extended by or under this Act;

the expression “the Existing City” means the county borough of Dublin as existing immediately before the passing of this Act;

the expression “the Borough” means the borough of Dun Laoghaire established by this Act;

the expressions “the County” and the “County Council” mean respectively the administrative county of Dublin and the council of that county;

the expression “the City Corporation” means the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin;

the expression “the Borough Corporation” means the Corporation of Dun Laoghaire;

the expression “the Corporation” includes both the City Corporation and the Borough Corporation but shall be construed as referring to those Corporations distributively or respectively and not collectively;

the expression “the City Council” means the council established by this Act for the City;

the expression “the Borough Council” means the council established by this Act for the Borough;

the expression “the Council” includes both the City Council and the Borough Council but shall be construed as referring to those Councils distributively or respectively and not collectively;

the expression “the City Manager” means the Dublin City Manager and Town Clerk appointed by or under this Act;

the expression “the Borough Manager” means the Dun Laoghaire Borough Manager and Town Clerk appointed under this Act;

the expression “the Manager” includes both the City Manager and the Borough Manager but shall be construed as referring to those Managers distributively or respectively and not collectively;

the expression “the Lord Mayor” means the Lord Mayor of Dublin;

the expression “the Chairman” means the Chairman of the Borough Council;

the expression “the municipal fund” means in relation to the City the fund out of which the costs and expenses of the City Corporation are to be defrayed under this Act and in relation to the Borough the fund out of which the costs and expenses of the Borough Corporation are to be defrayed under this Act;

the expression “the municipal rate” means in relation to the City the rate to be raised under this Act by the City Corporation and in relation to the Borough the rate to be raised under this Act by the Borough Corporation for the purpose in each case of supplying any deficiency in the municipal fund;

the expression “city election” means a triennial election of members of the City Council held under this Act;

the expression “borough election” means a triennial election of members of the Borough Council held under this Act;

the expression “the day of election” means the day prescribed under this Act for the holding of the first city election, the first borough election, and the first election of members of the County Council after the passing of this Act;

the expression “the appointed day” means the day prescribed under this Act to be the appointed day;

the expression “the added urban districts” means the urban district of Pembroke and the urban district of Rathmines and Rathgar;

the expression “the coastal urban districts” means and includes the urban district of Dun Laoghaire, the urban district of Black-rock, the urban district of Dalkey, and the urban district of Killiney and Ballybrack;

the expression “the abolished bodies” means and includes the following bodies, that is to say:—

the respective councils of the several added urban districts;

the respective councils of the several coastal urban districts;

the Rathmines and Pembroke Joint Hospital Board;

the Rathmines and Pembroke Main Drainage Board;

the Blackrock and Kingstown Main Drainage Board;

the persons who, immediately before the appointed day, are performing the duties of the Council of the Urban District of Dalkey;

the expression “the added rural area” means the area consisting of the townlands parts of townlands and other land described in the First Schedule to this Act and to be more specifically defined in the maps thereof to be prepared under this Act;

the expression “the Act of 1925” means the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925);

the expression “the Act of 1927” means the Local Government Act, 1927 (No. 3 of 1927);

the expression “the Board of Health” means the board of public health to be established for the County in pursuance of the Act of 1925 as applied to the County by this Act.