Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1938

Amendment of section 26 of the Principal Act in respect of Limerick City.

7.—(1) The sum payable under section 26 of the Principal Act to the Minister by the council of the county borough of Limerick in the financial year which began on the 1st day of April, 1935, or in any subsequent financial year (whether beginning before or after the passing of this Act) shall be raised and (if and so far as it is raised before such passing) be deemed always to have been raisable by means of the municipal rate, but as a separate item thereof.

(2) In relation to the sum payable under section 26 of the Principal Act to the Minister by the council of the county borough of Limerick in the financial year which began on the 1st day of April, 1936, or in any subsequent financial year (whether beginning before or after the passing of this Act), the expression “rateable value” shall mean and be deemed always to have meant, in the said section 26 , the valuation under the Valuation Acts, as deemed to be reduced by section 28 of the Limerick City Management Act, 1934 (No. 35 of 1934), of the hereditaments and tenements situate in the county borough of Limerick rateable to the municipal rate.

(3) This section shall operate by way of amendment of section 26 of the Principal Act and shall accordingly have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the said section 26 .