Seeds and Fertilisers Supply Act, 1956

Recovery of sums payable to county councils under schemes.

4.—In addition and without prejudice to any other method of recovering any sum payable to the council of a county in respect of or on account of a sale of goods by the council pursuant to a scheme under this Act during a sale period, every sum which is not paid to or recovered by the council before the 1st day of January next after the end of that period may—

(a) if the person by whom it is payable is rated (otherwise than as owner of a small dwelling within the meaning of the Local Government (Rates on Small Dwellings) Act, 1928 (No. 4 of 1928)) to the county rate in the county, be recovered by the levying by the council of a special rate assessed on the tenement, or such one as the council shall select of the tenements, in respect of which such person is so rated and shall be collected and may be recovered in the same manner and by the same means as the county rate, or

(b) if the person by whom it is payable is not rated as aforesaid to the county rate in the county, be recovered by means of a special rate to be made by the council for the purposes of this section to which such person shall be rated and which shall be collected and may be recovered in the same manner and by the same means as the county rate.