Trade Loans (Guarantee)(Amendment) Act , 1953

1 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.

2 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.

3 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.”

4 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.

5 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.

6 Short title.

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