Dublin Port and Docks (Bridges) Act, 1929

Mode in which Bridge Rate is to be levied.

27.—(1) The Board shall apportion the amount so certified between the County Borough of Dublin and that portion of the County of Dublin included in the Bridge Rate Area according to rateable value as hereinafter defined and shall send to the Corporation a demand for the amount apportioned to the County Borough of Dublin and to the County Council a demand for the amount apportioned to that portion of the County of Dublin included in the Bridge Rate Area adding to the demand sent to the Corporation such sums (if any) as the Minister for Local Government and Public Health certifies to be the proportion of the Collector General's annuity properly chargeable to the County Borough of Dublin in respect of Bridge Rate under this Act for the year to which such demand relates and adding to the demand sent to the County Council such sums (if any) as the said Minister certifies to be the proportion of the Collector General's annuity properly chargeable to that portion of the County of Dublin included in the Bridge Rate Area in respect of Bridge Rate under this Act for the year to which such demand relates and adding also to each of such demands an amount by way of allowance as and for costs of collection and irrecoverable rates and office expenses which amount shall be equivalent to five per cent. on the amount to be raised as hereinafter provided pursuant to such demand and the Corporation and County Council respectively shall pay to the Board the amounts specified in the demand sent to them as aforesaid by equal half-yearly payments on the 1st day of June and 1st day of December in each year deducting from each such payment one half of the sum (if any) so as aforesaid certified by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health in respect of the Collector General's annuity, and also one half of the said allowance of five per cent.

(2) The Corporation shall raise either by means of the Bridge Rate as a separate rate or by means of the Poor Rate but as a separate item thereof a sum equal to the amount specified in such demand but the demand note shall specify approximately the amount in the pound required.

(3) A sum equal to the amount specified in such demand on the County Council shall be raised in manner provided by the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 , with respect to a railway or harbour charge; but the County Council in lieu of raising the amount required to meet the same by means of the Poor Rate may if they think fit raise it by levying the Bridge Rate as a separate rate.

(4) The Corporation or the County Council levying the Bridge Rate as a separate rate for the purpose of this Act shall make levy and collect the same upon the same basis and in like manner as the Poor Rate and all enactments relating to the Poor Rate shall apply accordingly.

(5) For the purposes of this section the expression “rateable value” shall mean valuation under the Valuation Acts exclusive of the valuation of the tenements and hereditaments exempted by this Act from the Bridge Rate.