No. 31/1930:

THE LOUTH MENTAL HOSPITAL DISTRICT ORDER, 1930.

THE LOUTH MENTAL HOSPITAL DISTRICT ORDER, 1930.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

To the Commissioners of the County Borough of Dublin; to the Councils of the Administrative Counties of Dublin, Louth and Wicklow; to the Joint Committee of Management of the Grangegorman District Mental Hospital; and to all others whom it may concern:

WHEREAS in pursuance of the Lunacy (Ireland) Acts, 1821 to 1901, and the Richmond Lunatic Asylum Act, 1830, as amended by the Local Government (Ireland) Acts, 1898 to 1919, and the Local Government Act, 1925 , the Administrative Counties of the County Borough of Dublin, Dublin, Louth and Wicklow form a joint district for the Grangegorman District Mental Hospital (formerly known as the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum):

AND WHEREAS application has been made to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health by the Council of the Administrative County of Louth to separate the said County from the said joint district and to constitute it to be a separate district with a separate district mental hospital, for the purposes of the Lunacy (Ireland) Acts, 1821 to 1901, as amended as aforesaid:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to accede to the said application of the Council of the Administrative County of Louth:

NOW THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers vested in him by the Lunacy (Ireland) Acts, 1821 to 1901, as adapted by the Order of the Executive Council entitled the Lunacy Acts (Adaptation) Order, 1929, and as amended by the Local Government (Ireland) Acts, 1898 to 1919, and the Local Government Act, 1925 , does hereby order and direct as follows, that is to say:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Louth Mental Hospital District Order, 1930, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1930.

2. On and after the date upon which this Order comes into operation—

(a) the Administrative County of Louth shall be separated from and shall cease to form part of the joint district for the Grangegorman District Mental Hospital and such district shall comprise the Administrative Counties of the County Borough of Dublin, Dublin and Wicklow only;

(b) the Administrative County of Louth shall be and is hereby constituted to be a separate district for the purpose of the provision and maintenance of accommodation for the lunatic poor in that County under the enactments relating thereto.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this twelfth day of March in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty.

(Signed)

RISTEARD UA MAOLCHATHA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.