Event Information

Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (Local Government Board for Ireland)

Absorption

Monday 2nd of June 1924

The Local Government Board for Ireland took over the functions of the Irish Poor Law Commissioners with respect to Boards of Guardians of Poor Law Unions, and also dealt with urban municipal government (town commissioners and borough corporations). The Board continued for a time post-independence, though its personnel and functions were moved to other parts of the Government administration. The Board's functions appear to have been formally subsumed into the Department of Local Government and Public Health by 1924

Source: Third Part of the Schedule to the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (No. 16 of 1924); Mary E. Daly, 'The Buffer State: The Historical Roots of the Department of the Environment' (Institute of Public Administration, 1997)
Linkages: Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/16/enacted/en/html

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Local Government Board for Ireland	Department of Local Government and Public Health