Section 3 Application to Scotland and Ireland.

United Kingdom

C1(1)

In the application of this Act to Scotland—

(a)

subsection (2) of section one shall not apply: provided that the Local Government Board for Scotland may, if they think fit, by order, authorise any two or more local authorities to act together for the purposes of the principal Act and this Act, and may prescribe the mode of such joint action and of defraying the costs thereof;

(b)

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(2)

In the application of this Act to Ireland—

(a)

subsection (2) of section one shall not apply;

(b)

the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (1) of section two:—

(1)

Any local authority within the meaning of the principal Act may make such arrangements as they think fit, and as may be sanctioned by the Local Government Board for Ireland, for attending to the health of expectant mothers and nursing mothers, and of children under five years of age and for the purpose of any such arrangements may, subject to the sanction aforesaid, exercise the like powers as they are entitled to exercise for the purpose of the provision of hospitals;

(c)

the provisions for the extension of the principal Act shall not apply as respects any rural district; and

(d)

the expression “medical officer of health” means, for the purposes both of this Act and the principal Act, as respects any district for which there is a medical superintendent officer of health that officer, and elsewhere the medical officer of health of the dispensary district.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 3(1)(b) repealed by National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 27), Sch. 11 Pt. II

Modifications

C1: Functions of Local Government Board for Scotland now exercisable by Secretary of State: Scottish Board of Health Act 1919 (c. 20), s. 4(1)(a), Sch. 1, Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 1 and Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act, which was previously repealed (E.W.) by 1946 c. 81, Sch. 10 Pt. II, repealed (5.11.1993) wholly by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.VIII