Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

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Payment of contributions to joint board.

236. For the purpose of obtaining payment from the component districts of the sums to be contributed by them, the joint board shall issue its precept to the sanitary authority of each component district stating the sum to be contributed by it, and requiring such authority, within a time limited by the precept, to pay the sums therein mentioned to the joint board or to such person as the joint board may direct.

Any sum mentioned in a precept addressed by a joint board to a sanitary authority as aforesaid shall be a debt due from it, and may be recovered accordingly; such contribution, in the case of a rural sanitary authority, being deemed to be general expenses.

For the purpose of obtaining payment from contributory places of the sums to be contributed by them, the joint board shall have the same powers of issuing precepts and of recovering the amounts named therein as if such contributory places formed a rural sanitary district and the joint board were the sanitary authority thereof.

Borrowing Powers.