Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act, 1900

Power to apply funds in accordance with rules.

41 & 42 Vict. c. 66.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 60.

1.(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act, 1878, or the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, the funds placed at the disposal of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland (in this Act referred to as “the Board”) may, subject to the proviso in sub-section (4) of section five and to section seven of the said Act of 1878, be applied by them in the manner provided by rules to be made by the Board, with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant, for the purpose of carrying out the recommendations contained in the General Summary of the Report of the Commissioners appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to report upon the system of intermediate education in Ireland, dated the eleventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and [1] presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

(2) All rules made in pursuance of this section shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within three weeks after the same have been made, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not then sitting within three weeks of the session then next ensuing, and, if any such rules are disapproved by either House of Parliament within forty days after the same have been so laid before Parliament, such rules, or such part thereof as may be so disapproved, shall thereupon become void and of no effect.

[1 The Report forms Parl. Paper, 1899 [9116].]