Vocational Education Act, 1930

Demand by committee for annual local contribution.

46.—(1) When the Minister has considered an annual scheme he shall issue to the vocational education committee by which such scheme was prepared a certificate in the prescribed form authorising such committee to demand from the rating authority for the vocational education area of such committee an annual local contribution in respect of the local financial year to which such annual scheme relates of such amount as the Minister shall think proper to specify in such certificate having regard to the estimates of expenses and receipts contained in such scheme, but not less than the minimum annual liability of such rating authority in respect of such year nor more than whichever of the two following amounts is the greater, that is to say, the amount of the annual local contribution mentioned in such scheme and the amount of the annual local contribution (if any) in respect of the preceding local financial year.

(2) Every vocational education committee shall, upon receiving from the Minister a certificate under this section, forthwith send to the rating authority for the vocational education area of such committee a demand in the prescribed form for an annual local contribution of the amount specified in such certificate for or in respect of the local financial year to which such certificate relates.

(3) Every rating authority to which a demand is made under this section by the vocational education committee for the vocational education area for which such authority is the rating authority shall pay to such committee at the prescribed time or times and in the prescribed manner the amount of such demand without any deduction whatsoever.