Loans For Schools and Training Colleges (Ireland) Act, 1884

Loans for national schools and training colleges.

2. In addition to the purposes for which loans may be made under the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Acts, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland may, in such cases as they may judge expedient, subject to such rules as may from time to time be made by the Treasury, make loans for the purpose of assisting any person in the erection, enlargement, structural improvement, or purchase of a house to be used as a non-vested national school or training college, or in the enlargement or structural improvement of any existing non-vested national school or training college, or in the acquisition or improvement of a farm, not exceeding twenty-five acres in extent, connected with a non-vested national school or training college, to be used for the purpose of agricultural instruction, or for the purpose of discharging any debt due and incurred before the nineteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four in the erection, enlargement, structural improvement, or purchase of a house to be used as a training college.

Such loans shall only be made on the recommendation of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland.