Broadcasting Authority (Amendment) Act, 1966

Annual amounts to be paid to Authority by Minister.

2.—The Minister, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, may, in respect of each of the five consecutive financial years beginning with that ending on the 31st day of March, 1966, pay to the Authority out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas an amount equal to the total of the receipts in that year in respect of broadcasting licence fees less—

(a) any expenses certified by the Minister as having been incurred by him in that year in relation to the collection of those fees, and

(b) any expenses certified by the Minister as having been incurred by him in that year in respect of the performance of his functions under sections 12 and 12A of the Act of 1926 in relation to interfering with or injuriously affecting wireless telegraphy apparatus for receiving only.