Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948

General expenses and special expenses of rural sanitary authority.

50.—(1) Expenses (other than expenses to which an order under subsection (2) of this section relates or expenses declared by or under the Acts, to be private improvement expenses) incurred by the council of a county as the rural sanitary authority of a county health district or which are to be raised and defrayed as if they had been so incurred shall be charged on the whole of such county health district.

(2) The Minister, on the application of the council of a county as the rural sanitary authority of a county health district, may by order provide that the whole or a part of any expenses incurred by such council as such authority for a particular purpose shall be charged on a particular part only of such district.

(3) Expenses to which subsection (1) of this section relates shall be known as general expenses and expenses to which an order under subsection (2) of this section relates shall be known as special expenses.

(4) Every reference to special expenses contained in any enactment which is in force at the commencement of this section and which relates to sanitary authorities shall be construed as a reference to expenses to which an order under subsection (2) of this section relates.

(5) The making of an application under subsection (2) of this section shall be a reserved function for the purposes of the County Management Acts, 1940 and 1942.