Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Borrowing powers of joint boards and certain other authorities.

247. Joint boards under this Act, and sanitary authorities acting as burial boards under this Act, and any joint sewerage board constituted under any of the Sanitary Acts and existing at the time of the passing of this Act shall, for the purposes of their constitution, have like powers of borrowing on the credit of any fund or rate applicable by them to purposes of this Act or on the credit of sewage land and plant as are by this Act conferred on sanitary authorities, and in the exercise of those powers shall be subject to the like restrictions; and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland may make any loan to any of the above-mentioned authorities which they may make to a sanitary authority under this Act: . . .

Audit of Accounts.