Drainage Maintenance Act, 1924

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Provision of money for works under this Act.

4.—(1) The money required to meet the cost of the execution of any works under this Act by the Commissioners in any drainage district shall be provided as follows:—

(a) the Minister for Finance may pay out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas so much as he shall think proper of such cost but not more in any case than one-half of the total cost of the works executed under this Act in that drainage district;

(b) the council of the county in which the drainage district or any part thereof is situate may contribute in manner hereinafter provided, so much of such cost as such council shall, with the approval of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health think proper, but the sum contributed by such council, or where the district is situate in more than one county, the total sum contributed by the councils of the several counties in which the district is situate, shall not exceed one-half of the total cost of the works executed under this Act in that district;

(c) the balance of such cost over and above the amounts (if any) provided under the foregoing paragraphs shall be advanced by the Commissioners in manner hereinafter provided.

(2) For the purposes, of this Act, the cost of the execution of any works shall include all expenses incidental to the execution of such works.