Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) (No. 2) Act, 1935

Increase of the agricultural grant.

4.—(1) In the current financial year the Minister for Finance shall make, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, a grant of three hundred and seventy thousand pounds, and such grant shall be so made by the said Minister by way of an increase (over and above the supplementary grant under the Act of 1925 and the additional supplementary grant under the Act of 1931) of the agricultural grant referred to in section 48 of the Act of 1898, and shall be deemed for the purpose of all enactments now in force to form part of the said agricultural grant referred to in the said section 48 and, in particular, shall be subject to the provisions of section 40 of the Irish Land Act, 1903.

(2) Out of the agricultural grant in respect of the current financial year, there shall be paid to the council of each of the several counties in Saorstát Eireann the sum stated in the second column of the Second Schedule to this Act opposite the name of the county where it appears in the first column of the said Second Schedule, and every sum so paid to a council shall be deemed to be the sum certified under section 48 of the Act of 1898 as payable to such council during the current financial year, and accordingly every enactment which applies to the sum so certified as payable to a council (whether so applying before or after the issue of such sum) shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, apply to the sum payable to such council in pursuance of this sub-section.

(3) The sum which is payable in the current financial year under section 50 of the Act of 1898 as applied by section 26 of the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930 (No. 27 of 1930), out of the agricultural grant to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Dublin shall be sixteen hundred and eighty pounds, thirteen shillings, and sixpence.

(4) The allocation, in accordance with this section of the agricultural grant in respect of the current financial year, shall constitute and be a complete allocation of the said agricultural grant and shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act.

(5) Sub-section (5) of section 6 of the Local Government Act, 1927 (No. 3 of 1927), shall not apply or have effect in relation to the agricultural grant in respect of the current financial year, and the said section 6 shall in relation to that agricultural grant, be construed and have effect accordingly.