National Agricultural Advisory, Education and Research Authority Act, 1977
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Agricultural schemes. |
39.—(1) Every committee of agriculture shall, in respect of its functions under this Act, submit to the Minister, on or before such date as may be specified by him, the agricultural scheme to which section 33 of the Act of 1931 relates. | |
(2) When the Minister has considered the scheme, he shall issue to the committee by which the scheme was prepared a certificate in the prescribed form authorising the committee to demand from the council of the county in which the functional area of the committee is situated a contribution (in this Act referred to as the annual local contribution), in respect of the local financial year to which the agricultural scheme relates, of such amount as the Minister shall think proper to specify in such certificate having regard to— | ||
(a) the estimate of expenses and receipts contained in the agricultural scheme, and | ||
(b) the estimate of expenses and receipts furnished under section 44 to the Minister by the Board in regard to the provision of agricultural advisory and education services in the county. | ||
(3) Every certificate under this section shall specify the respective portions of the annual local contribution which relate to the separate estimates of expenses and receipts indicated in subsection (2). | ||
(4) Every committee of agriculture shall, upon receiving from the Minister a certificate under this section, forthwith send to the council of the county concerned a demand in the prescribed form for the total contribution specified in the certificate in respect of the local financial year to which it relates. | ||
(5) Every council of a county to which a demand is made under this section by a committee of agriculture shall pay to such committee, at such time or times as the Minister may specify and in such manner as he may indicate, the amount of the demand without any deduction whatsoever. | ||
(6) Every committee of agriculture shall, out of the annual local contribution, pay to the Authority each year without deduction, at such time or times and in such manner as the Minister may specify, the amount indicated in the certificate referred to in subsection (2) which relates to the expenses and receipts mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection. | ||
(7) The annual local contribution shall not, in any local financial year, exceed, or be less than, the respective limits specified in section 1 (1) of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1974 . | ||
(8) The council of a county shall, in every local financial year, charge the amount of the annual local contribution in the area consisting of the county, exclusive of every (if any) urban district therein. |