Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898

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Part VI.

Orders and Rules.

[Ss. 104–107, empowering the Lord Lieutenant by Order in Council, to be made before dates now past, to apply English and Scottish and adapt Irish enactments and to regulate the procedure of councils, rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.). See “The Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898” (made under s. 104), which, as amended by the Local Government (Ireland) Acts, 1900 and 1902 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 63; 2 Edw. 7. c. 38), is printed in Stat. Rules and Orders Rev. 1904, VII. “Local Government, I.,” pp. 6–39; “The Local Government (Adaptation of Irish Enactments) Order, 1899” (made under s. 105), printed in Stat. Rules and Orders Rev. 1904, VII. “Local Government, I.” pp. 40–102; and the Local Government (Procedure of Councils) Order, 1899 (made under s. 106) (Stat. Rules and Orders, 1899, No. 43), which was in 1905 reprinted as amended by Provisional Orders of 1901 and 1905, confirmed respectively by 1 Edw. 7. c. cxli, and 5 Edw. 7. c. lxxxii.]

Rules and Provisional Orders by Local Government Board.

108.—(1) The Local Government Board may make rules—

(a) for carrying into effect the provisions of Part Three of this Act so far as regards councils and guardians and their officers; and in particular for regulating—

(i) the communication by rural district councils and guardians to county councils and by county councils to urban district councils, of the amounts respectively required to be raised in each local financial year or any part thereof; and

(ii) the estimates to be made by district councils or guardians or their officers of their receipts and expenditure in each local financial year; and

(b) for regulating any matter authorised by this Act to be prescribed or to be regulated by rules of the Local Government Board; and

(c) generally for carrying into effect this Act, so far as the Lord Lieutenant in Council is not authorised to make provision for that purpose.

(2) The Local Government Board may make Provisional Orders for adapting any local Act to the provisions of this Act and of any Order in Council made thereunder.