S.I. No. 15/1961:

LOCAL OFFICE (GAELTACHT) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1961.

LOCAL OFFICE (GAELTACHT) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1961.

The Minister for Local Government, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on each of them by sections 13 , 14 and 19 of the Local Government Act, 1941 , hereby orders as follows :--

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Order, 1961.

2. The Local Offices (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Order, 1943 (S.R. and O. 1943 No. 97) as amended by the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Order, 1960 ( S.I. No. 21 of 1960 ) shall be amended by the deletion of sub-article (2) of article 3 and the substitution therefor of the following :--

" (2) Article 3 of the Principal Order, as amended by subsequent orders, shall in its application to a person to whom this article applies, be amended so as to provide that such person may continue in office until the 31st day of January, 1962, but shall thereupon cease to hold office unless he has theretofore satisfied the appropriate Minister in relation to the office that he possesses the knowledge of the Irish language mentioned in article 3 of the Principal Order."

3. This Order and the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) Orders, 1928 to 1960 may be collectively cited as the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) Orders, 1928 to 1961.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this thirtieth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this thirtieth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.

SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Health.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this thirtieth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-one.

SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Local Offices and Employments (Gaeltacht) Order, 1928, as amended by the Local Offices (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Order, 1960, provides that any person who is appointed to an Office to which those orders apply the duties of which are to be performed in or in relation to any part of the Gaeltacht and who at the time of such appointment does not possess a competent knowledge of the Irish language shall cease to hold such office at the expiration of three years from such appointment or the 31st day of January, 1961 (whichever is the later) unless he theretofore satisfies the appropriate Minister in relation to such office that he possesses such a knowledge of the Irish language.

The effect of this Order is to substitute the 31st day of January, 1962, for the 31st day of January, 1961, in the said Order.