Funds of Suitors Act, 1984
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Disposal of part of funds of suitors. |
3.—(1) The Bank of Ireland shall, upon the order of the Chief Justice, pay out of the account to the Exchequer such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate the total amount of cash standing in the dormant account of the funds of suitors, as the Minister may from time to time require for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section. | |
(2) The sums paid to the Exchequer pursuant to subsection (1) of this section may be applied by the Minister as follows: | ||
(a) not more than £600,000 may be applied for such purpose or purposes in relation to culture and the arts (within the meaning of the Arts Act, 1951 ) as the Taoiseach may determine, | ||
(b) not more than £600,000 may be applied in or towards the defrayal of the cost of the carrying out of the works specified in section 4 of this Act, | ||
(c) not more than £300,000 may, on the application of the Minister for the Gaeltacht, be applied in or towards the defrayal of the cost of the extension, completed in the year 1983, of the premises of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann at Monkstown in the county of Dublin known as Cultúrlann na hÉireann, | ||
(d) not more than £100,000 may, on the application of the Minister for Labour, be applied in or towards the defrayal of the cost of the Community, Youth, Recreational and Employment Programme administered by the Minister for Labour, | ||
(e) the balance may be applied in or towards the defrayal of— | ||
(i) the cost of the provision of court rooms and ancillary accommodation and services in the Dublin Metropolitan District for use for the purposes of the Children's Court of the District Court, | ||
(ii) any of the cost that would, apart from this subsection, fall to be defrayed by the State of the provision, extension, repair and maintenance of such other buildings, and the provision of such services, for use for the purposes of or in relation to the courts as the Minister for Justice may determine, and | ||
(iii) the cost of the provision of such services for the provision of legal aid in civil cases as the Minister for Justice may determine. |