S.I. No. 233/1985:

HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1985.

HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1985.

The Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 10 and 13 of the Health Contributions Act, 1979 (No. 4 of 1979) hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Contributions (Amendment) Regulations, 1985.

2. The Health Contributions Regulations, 1979 ( S.I. No. 107 of 1979 ) are hereby amended by the substitution for article 21 of the following article:--

"21 (1) Subject to sub-article (2) all sums paid over to the Minister for Health in accordance with section 13 of the Act shall be appropriated in aid of the Vote for Health.

(2) All sums collected by a health board on or after the 1st day of January 1985 and before the 1st day of January 1986 under section 7 of the Act and which are paid over to the Minister for Health under section 13 of the Act shall be repaid to the health board".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this

12th day of July, 1985.

BARRY DESMOND,

Minister for Health.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions the above Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this

12th day of July, 1985.

ALAN M. DUKES,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations provide that health boards may retain, as supplementary revenue to meet health services costs, arrears of health contributions collected by them from the farming community in the year ending 31 December, 1985.