S.I. No. 83/1927 - Local Taxation Account (Licence Duty Grant) Order, 1927.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1927. No. 83.

LOCAL TAXATION ACCOUNT (LICENCE DUTY GRANT) ORDER, 1927.

WHEREAS, by Section 9 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), it is enacted that wherever under any British Statute any grant, whether annual or capital, is directed to be made by the Treasury out of the Consolidated Fund or by the Treasury or any other Government Department out of any other Fund, and the amount of such grant is by such Statute fixed either for the whole of the late United Kingdom or for any part thereof which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann, the Minister for Finance may by Order apportion such amount between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which such amount is fixed as aforesaid, and may by such Order fix the amount of such grant to be made under such Statute in Saorstát Eireann.

AND WHEREAS, by Sub-section (1) of Section 58 of the British Statute entitled the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, it is enacted that after the 31st day of March next after the passing of that Act there should be annually paid out of the Consolidated Fund to the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account certain moneys therein mentioned and amongst others the annual sum of £79,000.

AND WHEREAS the said sum of £79,000 was fixed by the British Statute aforesaid for the whole of Ireland, being a part of the late United Kingdom which included the area now comprised in Saorstát Eireann, and it is necessary that such sum should be apportioned between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which the said sum was fixed as aforesaid and that the annual sum to be paid in Saorstát Eireann to the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account under the said Statute should be fixed.

NOW the Minister for Finance, in exercise and by virtue of the power in this behalf vested in him by Section 9 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may for all purposes be cited as the " Local Taxation Account (Licence Duty Grant) Order, 1927. "

2. The annual sum of £79,000 fixed by Sub-section (1) of Section 58 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, as part of the moneys to be paid annually out of the Consolidated Fund to the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account is hereby apportioned between Saorstát Eireann and the rest of the area in respect of which the said sum was fixed by the said Act as follows, that is to say :—

(a) In respect of Saorstát Eireann, the sum of £62,849 (sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and forty-nine pounds) ; and

(b) In respect of the rest of the area aforesaid, the sum of £16,151 (sixteen thousand, one hundred and fifty-one pounds).

3. The annual sum to be paid in Saorstát Eireann out of the Central Fund to the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account under the said Sub-section (1) of Section 58 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, in lieu of the said annual sum of £79,000 shall be the sum of £62,849 (sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and forty-nine pounds).

4. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 23rd

day of September, 1927.

J. J. McELLIGOTT, Secretary.

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.