Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891

Application of Guarantee Fund under Labourers (Ireland) Acts. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 60.

21. When under the provisions of this Act the whole or any portion of the county per-centage, or of the Exchequer contribution, is applied towards the cost of providing labourers’ cottages in any county, so much of the sixth section of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1883, as enacts that an improvement scheme shall provide for a plot or garden not exceeding half a statute acre being allotted to each dwelling shall not apply; and such dwelling may be provided with or without such plot or garden:

Provided that notwithstanding anything in the said Acts, it shall be lawful for any local authority with the said moneys to acquire existing dwellings and to repair dwellings so acquired.