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Grant to counties and county boroughs.
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24.—(1) By way of compensation for the withdrawal after the year 1929 of the moneys theretofore available under paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) of section 16 of the Act of 1911 for the defraying of sanatorium benefit, there shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas in every year after the year 1929 a sum of £27,750 and such sum shall annually be distributed among such councils of counties and county boroughs and such boards of health and in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, shall appoint.
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(2) Any sum distributed under this section to a council or board who have undertaken in pursuance of the Tuberculosis (Ireland) Acts, 1908 and 1913, the provision of treatment for inhabitants of their district suffering from tuberculosis shall be applied by them in relief of the expenses incurred by them in the execution of the said Acts.
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(3) Where a council or board have not undertaken in pursuance of the Tuberculosis (Ireland) Acts, 1908 and 1913, the provision of treatment for the inhabitants of their district suffering from tuberculosis, any sum which may be distributed to any such council or board under this section, shall be applied by them in the provision of treatment for insured persons within their district suffering from tuberculosis, in such manner as the Minister for Local Government and Public Health shall approve or direct.
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(4) A council or board to whom any sum has been distributed under this section and who have undertaken in pursuance of the Tuberculosis (Ireland) Acts, 1908 and 1913, the provision of treatment for inhabitants of their district suffering from tuberculosis, shall not be entitled to recover from any insured person, being an inhabitant of their district, suffering from tuberculosis, the cost of any institutional treatment afforded by them in any year to such person so long as the total cost of institutional treatment afforded by them to such persons in such year does not exceed three-fifths of the sum distributed in such year as aforesaid and every such insured person in need of institutional treatment for tuberculosis shall in any year in which the total cost aforesaid does not at any time exceed the limit hereinbefore specified be entitled to receive such treatment free of charge.
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