Educational Endowments (Ireland) Act, 1885

Approval of Lord Lieutenant to schemes.

24. The Lord Lieutenant in Council, as soon as a scheme is submitted to him, shall, before provisionally approving the same, cause the scheme, or a proper abstract thereof, to be published in such manner as he thinks sufficient for giving information to all persons interested, together with a notice stating that during two months after the first publication of such notice the Lord Lieutenant in Council will receive any objections made to him in writing by any public body or persons interested respecting such scheme.

After the expiration of the said two months the Lord Lieutenant in Council may, if he thinks fit, provisionally approve the scheme, or may remit the scheme, with such declaration as the nature of the case seems to him to require, to the Commissioners, and if he remits the scheme with a declaration the provisions contained in the immediately succeeding section shall apply.

The Lord Lieutenant in Council, as soon as he provisionally approves a scheme, shall forthwith, in such manner as he thinks sufficient for giving information to all persons interested, publish a notice that the scheme has been provisionally approved by him, and that, unless within two months after the first publication of such notice a petition is presented to him as in this section mentioned, such scheme may be finally approved by an Order in Council without being laid before Parliament.

During the said two months a petition praying that the scheme may be laid before Parliament may be presented to the Lord Lieutenant in Council by the governing body of the endowment to which the scheme relates, or by the town council or town commissioners of any town or district directly affected by the scheme, or by any ratepayers (not less than twenty) of any poor law union or place directly affected by the scheme, or by any person or persons having a vested interest in the endowment or any part of it.