Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1936

Increase of the agricultural grant in the financial years 1937-38 and 1938-39.

3.—(1) If moneys shall be provided by the Oireachtas for the purposes of an increase under this section of the agricultural grant in respect of the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1937, the Minister for Finance shall make in that financial year, out of the moneys so provided, a grant equal to the amount of such moneys.

(2) If moneys shall be provided by the Oireachtas for the purposes of an increase under this section of the agricultural grant in respect of the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1938, the Minister for Finance shall make in that financial year, out of the moneys so provided, a grant equal to the amount of such moneys.

(3) Every (if any) grant made by the Minister for Finance in pursuance of this section 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 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 .

(4) If and whenever moneys shall be provided by the Oireachtas for the purposes of a grant by the Minister for Finance under this section, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) if the amount of the moneys so provided is three hundred and seventy thousand pounds, there shall be paid to the council of each of the several counties in Saorstát Eireann, out of the agricultural grant for the increase of which such moneys are so provided, 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;

(b) if the amount of the moneys so provided is either more than or less than three hundred and seventy thousand pounds, the Executive Council shall by order divide and allocate the agricultural grant for the increase of which such moneys are so provided amongst the several counties in Saorstát Eireann and there shall be paid to the council of each such county out of the said agricultural grant the sum allocated by such order to such county.

(5) Every sum paid under the next preceding sub-section of this section to a council out of an agricultural grant shall be deemed to be the sum certified under section 48 of the Act of 1898 as payable to such council during the financial year in respect of which such agricultural grant is made 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 the said next preceding sub-section.

(6) If and whenever the agricultural grant in respect of the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1937, or the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1938, is allocated under this Act, such allocation shall constitute and be a complete allocation of such agricultural grant and shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act.

(7) Every order made by the Executive Council under this section shall be laid before Dáil Eireann as soon as conveniently may be after it is made.