District of Fergus Drainage Act, 1943

Contribution by the Minister to price of lands acquired.

3.—(1) If the Clare Council acquires under this Act the lands described in the Second Schedule to this Act, the Minister may pay to that Council out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such sum, not exceeding two thousand five hundred pounds, as he shall think proper.

(2) All money paid to the Clare Council by the Minister under this section shall be applied by that Council as a contribution towards the price paid by the said Council for the lands described in the Second Schedule to this Act on the acquisition thereof under this Act.

(3) The payment of money under this section by the Minister to the Clare Council shall be taken to be in satisfaction and discharge of the obligation imposed by clause (A) of paragraph 2 of the Scheduled Consent on the Commissioners to contribute the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds, and all references in the Scheduled Consent to the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds provided by the Commissioners shall be construed as referring to the money paid by the Minister to the Clare Council under this section.