Local Authorities (Acceptance of Gifts) Act, 1945

Publication of notice of civic improvement scheme.

4.—(1) Where a local authority adopt a civic improvement scheme, they shall, as soon as may be after the adoption thereof and thereafter at least once annually, publish, in three newspapers (of which one at least is a daily newspaper) circulating in their functional area, notice of the existence of the scheme and of the fact that any person may make contributions to the voluntary civic improvement fund established thereunder.

(2) The expenses incurred under this section in relation to a civic improvement scheme shall—

(a) if incurred by a vocational education committee or a committee of agriculture, be defrayed out of the voluntary civic improvement fund established thereunder,

(b) if incurred by any other local authority, be defrayed either—

(i) out of such voluntary civic improvement fund, or

(ii) (I) in the case of the corporation of a county borough or the borough of Dún Laoghaire, out of the municipal fund,

(II) in the case of the council of a county, by means of the poor rate as a charge on the county health district of that county,

(III) in the case of the corporation of a borough (not being a county borough or the borough of Dún Laoghaire), by means of the borough rate,

(IV) in the case of the council of an urban district or the commissioners of a town, by means of the town rate.