Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1900

Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37, s. 54, as to gale day and as to deductions from rent in urban districts.

3.(1) Section fifty-four of the principal Act shall be deemed to have had effect as from the gale day last before the appointed day under that Act in the case of any tenancy one of the gale days of which is in March.

(2) Subsection (4) of the said section fifty-four shall apply with the necessary modifications, and shall be deemed to have so applied as from the gale day last before or next after the appointed day under the principal Act, as the case requires, where a deduction is or has been made from rent by virtue of sub-section (11) of the said section, either as amended or not, in like manner as it applies where rent is reduced. Provided that where a person receiving and paying rent in respect of the same holding would not, if the principal Act or this Act had not passed, have been entitled to deduct more than half the poor rate from the rent paid by him, the reduction or deduction which may be made under the said subsection (4), either as extended or not, shall be calculated on the assumption that the occupier was entitled to deduct half the standard amount for poor rate in the standard financial year.

[Sub-s. (3) rep. 1 Edw. 7. c. 28 s. 1.]

(4) The expression “lease” in the said subsection (11) shall include a fee farm grant.

(5) Any sum paid by any person which would not have been payable if this section had been in the principal Act, may be recovered as a debt from the person to whom it was paid.