Relief of Distress (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1880

Amendment of 43 Vict. c. 4. s. 7.

2. [Recital of 43 Vict. c. 4. s. 17] The seventeenth section of the said Act shall be construed as if the words one million five hundred thousand pounds were therein substituted for the words seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds: And with the view of facilitating the raising of the said increased sum, the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt and the Commissioners of Church Temporalities may from time to time vary the terms for the repayment of any loan made or to be made by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and the security for such loan: And the Treasury may, if they think fit, from time to time continue their guarantee to the loan and security varied as aforesaid.

The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland may from time to time on the recommendation of the Local Government Board grant to the board of guardians in any union authorised to give out-door relief under the third section of the Relief of Distress (Ireland) Act, 1880, out of the said sum of one million five hundred thousand pounds, such moneys as the Local Government Board may find necessary having regard to the financial condition of such union and the pressure of distress within its limits, to aid in giving out-door relief in such union: Provided that the entire sum to be so granted shall not exceed two hundred thousand pounds.