Public Money Drainage Act 1850

Commissioners may fix a Time for Completion of Works, not exceeding 5 Years from First Advance.

IX. ‘And whereas by the said Act “to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland” it is provided that all the Works for which any Loan is made under such Act shall be completed within such Period as may, previously to making any such Loan or Advance as therein mentioned, be fixed by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, or within such further Period as they may fix from Time to Time, such Periods not exceeding in the whole Three Years from the Date of the First Advance on account of any such Loan:’ Be it enacted, That so much of the said recited Enactment as requires the said Commissioners to fix a Period for the Completion of any Works within Three Years from the Date of such First Advance shall be repealed; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to fix, for the Completion of any such Works, such Period, and from Time to Time such further Period, within Five Years from the Date of the First Advance on account of any such Loan, as the said Commissioners may think fit