Public Hospitals (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 1939—First Stage.
Leave granted to introduce a Bill "entitled an Act to enable the Irish Red Cross Society to raise funds by means of sweepstakes and drawings of prizes held under the Public Hospitals Acts, 1933 to 1939, and to amend and apply for that purpose portions of those Acts, and to apply Section 50 of the Finance Act, 1932, to such sweepstakes."—(Minister for Justice.)
Bill read the First Time.