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Contribution by county council to cost of works.
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2.—(1) The council of a county may agree with the board of health for a county health district situate in such county to pay to such board, for such period of years as may be agreed upon between such council and such board, an annual sum by way of contribution towards the expenses incurred (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by such board in the execution of a work to which this section applies, and thereupon such council shall pay such annual sum to such board accordingly.
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(2) Every annual sum payable by the council of a county to a board of health under this section shall be raised by such council by means of the poor rate equally over the area of the county health district of such board.
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(3) The total amount payable under this section by the council of a county to any one board of health in any one local financial year shall not exceed whichever of the following sums is applicable, that is to say:—
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(a) with the approval of the Minister, a sum equivalent to the produce of a rate of threepence in the pound on the valuation under the Valuation Acts of the rateable property in the county health district of such board, or
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(b) without the approval of the Minister, a sum equivalent to the produce of a rate of three-halfpence in the pound on the said valuation.
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(4) This section applies only to works complying with both the following conditions, that is to say:—
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(a) that the work consists of the provision or improvement of sewers or of sewage disposal or the provision or improvement of a supply of water for a place situate within the county health district of the board of health by which the work is executed; and
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(b) that so much of the capital cost of the work as is defrayed by a board of health is so defrayed out of borrowed moneys and the expenses of the repayment of such moneys are raisable as special expenses under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, as amended by the Local Government Acts, 1925 and 1927, off an area less than a county health district.
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