Vocational Education Act, 1930

Annual local contributions to vocational education committees.

43.—(1) There shall be paid, in every local financial year commencing after the passing of this Act by the rating authority for a vocational education area to the vocational education committee for such area, such sum (in this Act referred to as the annual local contribution) as may be demanded by such committee under this Part of this Act in respect of such year.

(2) The amount of the annual local contribution payable to a vocational education committee in respect of any particular local financial year—

(a) shall not be less than a sum (in this Part of this Act referred to as the minimum annual liability) equal, where the rating authority is the council of a county borough or of a scheduled urban district, to the amount of a rate of three pence in the pound on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year or, where the rating authority is the council of a county, other than the county of Cork, to the amount of a rate of one penny three farthings in the pound on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year or, where the rating authority is the council of the county of Cork, to the amount of a rate of two pence in the pound on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year; and

(b) shall not exceed a sum (in this Part of this Act referred to as the maximum annual liability) equal, where the rating authority is the council of a county borough or of a scheduled urban district, to the amount of a rate of the number of pence in the pound specified for such year in Part I. of the Third Schedule to this Act on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year or, where the rating authority is the council of a county, to the amount of a rate of the number of pence in the pound specified for such year in Part II. of the Third Schedule to this Act on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of such year.

(3) Every annual local contribution shall, where the rating authority is the council of a county borough or of a scheduled urban district, be raised by means of or out of any rate or fund applicable for the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, and in the case of a rate, assessed in the manner provided by that Act, and, where the rating authority is the council of a county, be raised equally over the whole of the area of charge by means of the poor rate.