Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1891

Supplemental as to Congested Districts Board.

40. [Sub-s. (1) rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 50, s. 3 (4).]

(2) Any member of the Board shall be eligible to act as an officer under this section for any temporary purpose, but so long as he is employed as such officer he shall not act as a member of the Board.

(3) The salaries or remuneration of the officers (if any) employed by the Board and the administrative expenses of the Board shall be fixed by the Treasury, and paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.[1]

(4) The Congested Districts Board may accept any gifts of property real or personal for all or any of the purposes for which money is provided under this Part of this Act, and apply them according to the directions of the giver, if consistent in their opinion with the principles on which they apply the said money, and, subject to any such directions, may apply them in like manner as that money.

[Sub-s. (5) rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 35. s. 2 (4).]

(6) The Congested Districts Board shall submit to the Treasury annually and at any other time for any special purpose, in the form fixed by the Treasury, an estimate showing the amount proposed by the Board to be expended, and shall not expend any sums except in accordance with such estimate when approved by the Treasury, and shall not create any permanent charge on the Church Surplus Grant, except that they may with the sanction of the Treasury borrow out of the moneys available for local loans in Ireland on the security of the annual income of the Church Surplus Grant such sum as, having regard to the liabilities of such income for the purposes of the Guarantee Fund and the other moneys at the disposal of the Board, the Treasury consider can be properly borrowed without danger to the security given by the Guarantee Fund.

(7) The Board shall keep such accounts of their receipts and expenditure, and those accounts shall be audited in accordance with such regulations, as the Treasury direct, and be laid before Parliament.

[1 See 62 & 63 Vict. c. 18. s. 5.]