Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925
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Dublin Police Rate. |
16.—(1) The rate (in this section called the police rate) heretofore levied in the Dublin Metropolitan Area for the maintenance of a police force in that area shall in the local financial year commencing next after the passing of this Act and in the seven succeeding local financial years be levied at the respective rates hereinafter mentioned and shall at the expiration of the last of those local financial years cease to be levied or raised. | |
(2) In the local financial year commencing next after the passing of this Act the police rate shall be levied at the rate of eightpence in the pound and in the next succeeding local financial year shall be levied at the rate of sevenpence in the pound and so on, abating by one penny in the pound in each succeeding local financial year. | ||
(3) During the eight local financial years aforesaid the police rate shall be assessed, levied, raised, and paid in the like manner as heretofore and all enactments relating to the police rate and in force at the commencement of this Act and all orders and regulations made thereunder and for the time being in force shall continue to apply to the police rate subject to such modifications as the Minister for Local Government and Public Health may by order make therein for the purpose of giving effect to this section (which modifications the said Minister is hereby authorised to make) and in particular subject to the modifications following, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the amount of the rate as fixed by this section shall be substituted for the estimate required by paragraph (2) of section 66 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 , to be made by the Minister for Justice, and | ||
(b) the amount raised by the police rate in the said eight local financial years (less such sums as are chargeable against that amount by virtue of section 66 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 ) shall be applied towards the maintenance of the amalgamated force in like manner as the amount raised by that rate has heretofore been applied towards the maintenance of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. | ||
(4) After the expiration of the eight local financial years aforesaid the council of the county borough of Dublin and the council of the county of Dublin shall in each half year pay to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health in such proportions as that Minister shall certify such sum as the said Minister shall certify to be the amount which but for this section would in that half year be deductible in respect of the Collector-General's annuity from the police rate. | ||
All sums payable in any half year by the respective councils of the county borough of Dublin and the county of Dublin to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health under this section shall be raised by these councils respectively in the like manner in all respects as the police rate would but for this section have been raised by them respectively in that half year. | ||
(5) In this section the expression ‘Collector-General's annuity’ has the same meaning as in section 66 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 . |