Acquisition of Land (Allotments) (Amendment) Act, 1934
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Rents chargeable for allotments let to unemployed persons or certain associations. |
4.—(1) Where an allotment on land provided by a local authority (whether before or after the passing of this Act) under the Principal Act or under that Act as amended by this Act is let to not more than two individual persons who are unemployed persons when such letting is made or to a number of persons working on a co-operative system who are all unemployed persons when such letting is made, such letting may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in section 3 or section 6 of the Principal Act, be made at such rent as such local authority considers that such persons could reasonably be expected to pay or, where such authority so thinks proper, at a merely nominal rent. | |
(2) Lettings of allotments at rents fixed under the immediately preceding sub-section shall be made for a period not exceeding eleven months. | ||
(3) Where allotments on land provided by a local authority (whether before or after the passing of this Act) under the Principal Act or under that Act as amended by this Act are let to an association of persons under paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of section 13 of the Principal Act and such authority is satisfied that some or all of such allotments will be let or otherwise made available by such association to or for unemployed persons, such local authority may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in section 3 or section 6 of the Principal Act, let such allotments to such association at such rent (including a merely nominal rent) as such local authority shall, having regard to all the circumstances, think proper and as the Minister may approve. | ||
(4) Whenever a local authority lets allotments under the powers conferred by this section at rents which are less than the rents required by section 3 or section 6 of the Principal Act to be charged, the Minister may, as and when he thinks proper, pay to such local authority out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such sum as he shall think proper for or towards recouping to such local authority the loss sustained by such local authority by reason of so letting such allotments at such rents. |