Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1939
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Increase of the agricultural grant. |
4.—(1) If moneys shall be provided by the Oireachtas for the purpose of an increase under this section of the agricultural grant in respect of any particular financial year, the Minister for Finance shall make, out of the moneys so provided, a grant in respect of that financial year equal in amount to the moneys so provided. | |
(2) Every (if any) grant made under this section by the Minister for Finance in respect of any particular financial year shall be made by the said Minister by way of increase (over and above the supplementary grant under the Act of 1925 and the additional supplementary grant under the Act of 1931) of the agricultural grant referred to in section 48 of the Act of 1898 in respect of that financial year, and shall be deemed for the purposes of all enactments for the time being in force to form part of the said agricultural grant referred to in the said section 48 and, in particular, shall be subject to the provisions of section 40 of the Irish Land Act, 1903 . | ||
(3) If and whenever moneys shall be provided by the Oireachtas for the purpose mentioned in the first sub-section of this section, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:— | ||
(a) if the amount of the moneys so provided is three hundred and seventy thousand pounds, there shall be paid to the council of every county, out of the agricultural grant for the increase of which such moneys are so provided, the sum stated in the second column of the Schedule to this Act opposite the name of the county where it appears in the first column of the said Schedule; | ||
(b) if the amount of the moneys so provided is either more or less than three hundred and seventy thousand pounds, the Government shall by order divide and allocate the agricultural grant for the increase of which such moneys are so provided amongst the several counties, and there shall be paid to the council of every county out of the said agricultural grant the sum allocated by such order to such county. | ||
(4) Every sum paid under the next preceding sub-section of this section to a council out of an agricultural grant shall be deemed to be the sum certified under section 48 of the Act of 1898 as payable to such council during the financial year in respect of which such agricultural grant is made, and accordingly every enactment which applies to the sum so certified as payable to a council (whether so applying before or after the issue of such sum) shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, apply to the sum payable to such council in pursuance of the said next preceding sub-section. | ||
(5) If and whenever the agricultural grant in respect of any financial year is allocated by or under this Act, such allocation shall constitute and be a complete allocation of such agricultural grant and shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act. | ||
(6) The sum which is payable in any financial year under section 50 of the Act of 1898 as applied by section 26 of the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930 (No. 27 of 1930), out of the agricultural grant to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Dublin shall be sixteen hundred and eighty pounds, thirteen shillings, and sixpence. | ||
(7) Every order made by the Government under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as conveniently may be after it is made. |