Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1936

Increase of the agricultural grant in the financial year 1936-37.

2.—(1) In the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1936, the Minister for Finance shall make, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, a grant of three hundred and seventy thousand pounds 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 such grant by the said Minister shall be deemed for the purposes of all enactments for the time being 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 financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1936, 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 Schedule to this Act opposite the name of the county where it appears in the first column of the said 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 said 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 the Principal Act as applied by this Act, apply to the sum payable to such council in pursuance of this sub-section.

(3) The allocation in accordance with this Act of the agricultural grant in respect of the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1936, shall constitute and be a complete allocation of the said agricultural grant and shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act.