Courthouses (Provision and Maintenance) Act, 1935
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Raising of expenses by councils, etc. |
13.—(1) The expenses incurred by a council in the provision and maintenance of courthouse accommodation in pursuance of this Act shall be raised— | |
(a) in the case of the county borough of Dublin and of the borough of Dun Laoghaire by means of the municipal rate, and | ||
(b) in the case of any other county borough by means of the rate by which expenses (other than expenses of guardians or in connection with the poor rate) are raised under sub-section (3) of section 46 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 , and | ||
(c) in every other case, by means of the poor rate as a county-at-large charge, but, in the case of the County of Dublin, exclusive of the borough of Dun Laoghaire. | ||
(2) Whenever any courthouse accommodation which is provided and maintained in pursuance of this Act by one council (in this sub-section called the principal council) serves or is used as courthouse accommodation in respect of the functional area of one or more other councils (in this sub-section called the contributing councils), every of the contributing councils shall pay to the principal council on demand by the principal council such proportion of the expenses of the provision and the maintenance of such courthouse accommodation as shall be agreed upon by such councils or, in default of such agreement, shall be fixed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and the first sub-section of this section shall apply to every sum payable by a contributing council under this sub-section as if such sum were expenses within the meaning of the said first sub-section. | ||
(3) As soon as may be after the passing of this Act, the Council of the County of Dublin and the Corporation of Dun Laoghaire shall respectively pay to the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin (in this sub-section called the City Corporation) such respective sums as, in default of agreement, shall be fixed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, by way of contribution towards the expenses incurred by the City Corporation in the execution, after the 31st day of August, 1933, and before the passing of this Act, of special repairs to the Courthouse at Green Street in the City of Dublin, and the first sub-section of this section shall apply to the said sums so payable to the City Corporation as if they were expenses within the meaning of that sub-section. | ||
(4) The remuneration of the caretaker and the assistants of the caretaker of any courthouse accommodation provided and maintained under this Act shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to be part of the expenses of the maintenance of such courthouse accommodation. |