Town and Regional Planning Act, 1934

Expenses of local authorities in the execution of this Act.

12.—(1) The expenses incurred by a local authority in or in relation to the making or execution of a planning scheme or otherwise in the execution of this Act shall, save as is otherwise provided by or under this Act, be raised—

(a) in the case of a county council, by means of the poor rate equally over such and so many townlands in the county health district in relation to which such expenses were so incurred as the Minister, on the application of such county council, may at any time and from time to time determine, and unless or until the Minister makes any such determination equally over the whole of such county health district, and

(b) in the case of a board of health, by means of the poor rate equally over such and so many townlands in the county health district of such board of health as the Minister, on the application of such board of health, may at any time and from time to time determine, and unless or until the Minister makes any such determination equally over the whole of such county health district, and

(c) in the case of any other local authority, in the manner in which expenses incurred by such local authority under the Public Health Acts, 1878 to 1931, are defrayed.

(2) Whenever any expenses are by virtue of this section to be raised by means of the poor rate over the whole of or over any particular townlands in a county health district (in this sub-section referred to as the chargeable area), the Minister may, on the application of the council or board by whom such expenses were or are to be incurred, direct that such expenses shall not be raised equally over the whole of the chargeable area but shall, as between specified townlands in the chargeable area, be raised in such proportions as the Minister shall think proper to specify, and thereupon such expenses shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this section, be raised in accordance with such direction.