Local Government (Ireland) Act 1901

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Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1901

(1 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 28.

An Act to amend sections fifty-four, fifty-six, fifty-seven and seventy-one of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, and to make provision with respect to the making of rates in certain urban districts in Ireland.

[17th August 1901]

B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 54, with respect to deductions from rent in certain cases.

1 Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 54, with respect to deductions from rent in certain cases.

(1)1.—(1.) Subsection (11) of section fifty-four of the principal Act shall not apply in the case of an occupier who would, but for this enactment, be entitled under that subsection to deduct from his rent a portion of the poor rate, and subsection (3) of section three of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1900 (which amends the said subsection (11)), shall be repealed.

(2) (2.) This section shall come into operation, as respects any holding, as from the gale day next after the passing of this Act.

S-2 Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. ss. 56 & 57, as to raising excluded charges.

2 Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. ss. 56 & 57, as to raising excluded charges.

2. Where, for the purpose of raising in any area the exact amount of any excluded charges mentioned in sections fifty-six or fifty-seven of the principal Act, it would, but for this section, be necessary to make a rate in the pound less than a farthing or not being a multiple of a farthing, the rate in the pound actually made for that purpose shall be a farthing or the next highest multiple of a farthing, is the case may be, and any sum raised in excess of such exact amount shall—

a ) in the case of any excluded charge mentioned in the said section fifty-six, be carried to the district fund of the district comprising that area or, where the area is comprised in more than one county district, to the district funds in proportion to the rateable value of the part of the area comprised in each district; and
b ) in the case of any excluded charge mentioned in the said section fifty-seven, be applied in such manner as the Local Government Board direct in aid of any rate required to meet any such excluded charge leviable within the aforesaid area
S-3 Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s....

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