Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939
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Dissolution of defaulting local authorities. |
29.—(1) If and whenever the Minister for Local Government and Public Health is satisfied that a local authority has failed to discharge any functions which it is required to discharge by or under this Part of this Act or any air-raid precautions scheme he may, without holding a local inquiry under section 72 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), exercise, in respect of such local authority, the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of the said section 72, and sub-sections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of the said section 72 shall apply accordingly. | |
(2) Where a local authority is dissolved under section 72 of the Local Government Act, 1925 , as applied by this section, any remuneration paid, in pursuance of sub-section (4) of the said section 72, out of the revenue of such local authority shall not be approved by the Minister under section 35 (which relates to State grants to local authorities) of this Act. |