Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1939

Application of Local Government (Rates on Small Dwellings) Act, 1928 .

18.—(1) For the purposes of section 6 of the Local Government (Rates on Small Dwellings) Act, 1928 (No. 4 of 1928) (in this section referred to as the said Act), and for the purposes of that section as applied by section 9 of the said Act, the amount of any rate to which the said Act applies made on a person entitled to an allowance or allowances under this Act in respect of such rate shall be deemed to be the difference between the actual amount of such rate and the amount of such allowance or the total amount of such allowances, as the case may be.

(2) Whenever a rating authority as defined by the said Act is the owner of a small dwelling within the meaning of the said Act, this Act shall apply to such rating authority in relation to such small dwelling as if such rating authority were a person on whom a rate was made by such rating authority in respect of such small dwelling for the service of the relevant financial year and the rates so deemed to have been made were paid by such rating authority on or before the end of the said financial year.

(3) The receipt by any person of an allowance under this Act shall not disentitle him to the benefit of the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 10 of the said Act if and so far as those provisions apply to him.