Arterial Drainage Act, 1925

Provision of money for carrying out drainage scheme.

13.—The money necessary to defray the cost and expenses incurred by the Commissioners in carrying out the drainage scheme and executing the works therein specified (including all compensation and other moneys payable and all incidental expenses) 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 costs and expenses;

(b) the council of any county in which the area proposed in the drainage scheme to be constituted a separate drainage district or any part of such area is situate may out of the county fund or out of moneys raised for the purpose by borrowing under this Act pay to the Commissioners so much of such costs and expenses as such council shall with the approval of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health think proper;

(c) the balance of such costs and expenses over and above the amounts (if any) provided under the foregoing paragraphs shall be advanced by the Commissioners out of moneys under their control and applicable to loans and shall be repaid to the Commissioners in the manner hereinafter provided.