Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act, 1960

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Contribution by one health authority to another where water derived from a public water supply serves the functional areas of both authorities.

5.—(1) Where a health authority (in this section referred to as the arranging authority) arrange for the fluoridation of water derived from a public water supply which serves any part of the functional area of another health authority, that other health authority shall pay on demand to the arranging authority, in respect of the cost of the expenses (including payment of loan charges) incurred in a local financial year by the arranging authority in respect of such fluoridation, a sum bearing to the total expenses the same ratio (estimated as closely as is reasonably practical) as the amount of water supplied in that year to the functional area of that other health authority bears to the total amount of water supplied from that public water supply.

(2) If any dispute arises as to the amount of the payment to be made under subsection (1) of this section by one health authority to another health authority, the dispute shall be referred to and decided by the Minister.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, any two health authorities may make and carry out an agreement that neither of them shall make to the other any payment which would otherwise be proper to be made pursuant to that subsection.