Fisheries (Tidal Waters) Act, 1934

Grants to certain boards of conservators.

14.—(1) In every fishery year, the Minister shall out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, pay to every board of conservators within whose district there are during that year or part thereof any tidal waters to which this Act applies an amount equal to such percentage of the sum which was on the 1st day of January, 1933, the total poor law valuation of the fisheries in such tidal waters as is fixed for the purpose of the rate leviable for such year on the other fisheries in such district under section 13 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 (No. 32 of 1925).

(2) If the Minister is satisfied that in any fishery year the receipts (including the moneys payable in such year under the immediately preceding sub-section) of any board of conservators, within whose district there are during that year or part thereof any tidal waters to which this Act applies, will be insufficient to defray the expenditure to be incurred by such board in such year, he may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, pay to such board out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas a grant not exceeding the estimated deficit.

(3) For the purposes of this section each of the following periods shall be a fishery year, that is to say:—

(a) the period of twelve months ending on the 30th day of September, 1934, and

(b) the period of twelve months ending on the 30th day of September, 1935.