Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972

Saving for powers of Ministry of DevelopmentF1 to dispose of former workhouse propertyN.I.

F1SRO (NI) 1973/504; 1976 NI 16

7.—(1) The repeal of paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Welfare Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 [1971 c.2] shall not affect any power of the Ministry of DevelopmentF2 to dispose of, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Welfare Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 [1949 c.1] , any former workhouse property still held by that Ministry at the commencement of this Order.N.I.

(2) In this paragraph, “former workhouse property” means any land (not being property which was subject to the provisions of section 23(2) or (3A) of the Health Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1948 [1948 c.3] ) which was, immediately before the 20th January 1949, held by the Ministry of Health and Local Government under any of the provisions of the Poor Relief Acts (Northern Ireland) 1838 to 1937.

F2SRO (NI) 1973/504; 1976 NI 16