Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927

Payment of compensation.

44.—(1) Immediately upon receipt of a copy of a compensation order from the registrar to a compensation authority, the treasurer shall send to the Minister for Finance a requisition in writing requesting him to advance and pay into the proper compensation fund the amount of the compensation fixed by such order, and not later than the next following 30th day of September the said Minister shall out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas comply with such requisition.

(2) Within ten days after whichever of the following days is the later, that is to say:—

(a) the 30th day of September next following the date of a compensation order, or

(b) the day of the receipt by the treasurer of a copy of the allocation order relating to such compensation order,

the treasurer shall pay out of the compensation fund to the persons named in such allocation order in the proportions therein stated the amount of the compensation fixed by such compensation order.