Vocational Education (Amendment) Act, 1944
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Contributions by rating authorities towards compulsory continuation education. |
5.—(1) Where— | |
(a) during a local financial year (in this sub-section referred to as the current year) either— | ||
(i) a vocational education area or any particular part of a vocational education area is a district to which Part V of the Principal Act applies, or | ||
(ii) an order has, before the 1st day of January, been made, under section 60 of the Principal Act, declaring a vocational education area or any particular part of a vocational education area to be a district to which, the said Part V applies, and | ||
(b) the Minister, after considering the annual scheme, relating to the next following local financial year (in this sub-section referred to as the next year), submitted by the vocational education committee for that vocational education area, is of opinion that the moneys which will under sections 43 and 53 of the Principal Act be at the disposal of the said vocational education committee will not be sufficient to defray the expenses of the said vocational education committee in carrying the said Part V into effect during the next year, | ||
the Minister may, not later than the 1st day of January in the current year, serve on the rating authority for such vocational education area a notice requiring that rating authority to pay, in addition to the annual local contribution for the next year, to the said vocational education committee in respect of the next year, at such time or times as may be specified in the notice, such sum (not exceeding in case the said vocational education area is a county borough or the borough of Dún Laoghaire, a sum equal to a rate of two pence in the pound on the rateable value of the said vocational education area at the commencement of the current year or, in any other case, a sum equal to a rate of one penny in the pound on the rateable value of the said vocational education area at the commencement of the current year) as he thinks fit. | ||
(2) Where a notice under sub-section (1) of this section is served on the rating authority for a vocational education area that rating authority shall comply with the notice. | ||
(3) Where a notice under sub-section (1) of this section has been served on the rating authority for a vocational education area during a local financial year and such vocational education area or the part thereof which is a district to which Part V of the Principal Act applies ceases at the expiration of such local financial year to be a district to which the said Part V applies, the notice shall be deemed not to have been served. | ||
(4) Any sums payable under this section by the rating authority for a vocational education area shall be raised in the like manner as any local annual contribution payable by that rating authority is raisable. | ||
(5) Expressions used in this section which are also used in Part IV of the Principal Act have in this section the same meanings as they respectively have in the said Part IV. |