Number 2 (Private) of 1953.

THE ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES, DUBLIN (CHARTER AMENDMENT) ACT, 1953.

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Number 2 (Private) of 1953.

THE ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES, DUBLIN (CHARTER AMENDMENT) ACT, 1953.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTERS UNDER WHICH THE GOVERNORS AND GUARDIANS OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES, DUBLIN ARE INCORPORATED SO AS TO ENABLE THE SAID GOVERNORS TO RECEIVE AND CHARGE REMUNERATION AND FEES FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PATIENTS IN THE SAID HOSPITAL. [22nd April, 1953.]

Preamble.

WHEREAS the Royal Hospital for Incurables Dublin situate in Donnybrook formerly in the County but now in the City of Dublin was founded many years prior to the year 1800 for the benefit of the Poor in and near the City of Dublin who were afflicted with disorders declared to be incurable, by dieting lodging clothing and maintaining such poor persons and by supplying them with Medical and Surgical Assistants Medicines and all manner of necessaries without fee or reward.

AND WHEREAS by a Charter or Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Ireland bearing date the 7th day of January 1800 and granted by his late Majesty King George the Third certain persons therein named and such other persons as might from time to time become or be elected Members of the Corporation in the manner thereinafter directed were incorporated into one body politic and corporate by the name of “The Governors and Guardians of the Hospital for Incurables near the City of Dublin” and by the Charter certain powers were conferred upon the Corporation and certain provisions were made for the general regulation and management of the Hospital.

AND WHEREAS by a Supplemental Charter or Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Ireland bearing date the 13th day of April 1886 and granted by her late Majesty Queen Victoria it was ordained and appointed that the said Hospital should continue to be for the dieting lodging clothing and maintaining poor persons who were or should be affected with disorders declared by qualified medical authority to be incurable and for supplying them with medical and surgical assistance medicines and all manner of necessaries without fee or reward.

AND WHEREAS by Royal Licence dated the 25th day of June 1887 the name of the Hospital was altered to “the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Dublin.”

AND WHEREAS the expenses of the Hospital having increased and being in excess of its income it is expedient that the Governors and Guardians of the Hospital should be at liberty to receive and charge remuneration and fees for the maintenance of patients in the Hospital and that for such purpose the Supplemental Charter of the 13th day of April 1886 be amended as hereinafter provided.

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the power of altering annulling revoking and abrogating the bye-laws for the regulation government and advantage of the said Corporation and its properties and affairs and for the management of the said Hospital contained in the Supplemental Charter of the 13th day of April 1886 be amended as hereinafter provided.

AND WHEREAS the purpose aforesaid cannot be effected without the authority of the Oireachtas.

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Definitions.

1.—In this Act unless the context otherwise requires the expression “The Charter” means the Royal Charter of Incorporation of the Governors and Guardians of the Hospital for Incurables near Dublin dated the 7th day of January 1800.

The expression “the Supplemental Charter” means the Royal Charter dated the 13th day of April 1886 whereby the terms of the Charter were amended and extended.

The expression “the Corporation” means the body corporate constituted by the Charter.

Amendment of Clause 1 of Supplemental Charter.

2.—Clause 1 of the Supplemental Charter shall be read and construed as if the words “without fee or reward” where the same appear at the end thereof were deleted.

Amendment of Clause 5 of Supplemental Charter.

3.—Clause 5 of the Supplemental Charter shall be amended by the deletion therefrom of the following words, that is to say: “and it is our will and pleasure that all such bye-laws be approved by our Chancellor of Ireland, the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench Division and the Master of the Rolls in Ireland or their successors in office or any one or more of them and so as such bye-laws be agreeable to the Laws and Statutes of our realm and the said Charter” and by the insertion in lieu thereof of the following words, that is to say: “that all such bye-laws be agreeable to the laws and statutes of Ireland and the said Charter and be approved by the Chief Justice for the time being, the President of the High Court for the time being and the Senior Ordinary Judge for the time being of the Supreme Court or any one or more of them and that the same shall have been furnished to the Minister for Health at least fourteen days prior to the date upon which the same is submitted for approval as aforesaid with a request that he should lay the same before each House of the Oireachtas.”

Confirmation of Charter and Supplemental Charter as amended.

4.—Save as hereby amended the Charter and Supplemental Charter shall be and remain in full force and effect.

Costs of Act.

5.—The cost charges and expenses preliminary to and of and incidental to the preparing obtaining and passing of this Act shall be paid by the Corporation out of the funds of the Corporation.

Short title.

6.—This Act may be cited as the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Dublin (Charter Amendment) Act, 1953.