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Insufficiency of agricultural grant.
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12.—(1) If the portion of the agricultural grant payable under this Act to the council of a county is less than the amount (in this section referred to as the said required amount) necessary for making all the primary allowances and employment allowances required by this Act to be made by such council and the payments (if any) required by this Act or by section 50 of the Act of 1898 as applied by this Act to be made by such council to councils of urban districts, every such primary allowance and every such employment allowance and every (if any) additional allowance required by this Act to be made by the council of an urban district in such county shall be reduced rateably by such amount as will make the aggregate amount of all such reductions equal to the amount by which the said portion of the agricultural grant falls short of the said required amount.
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(2) The several provisions of this Act (other than this section) in relation to the calculation of the amount of any primary allowance, employment allowance, or additional allowance shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section and, whenever any such allowance falls to be reduced by virtue of this section, the amount of such allowance shall be calculated in accordance with this Act (other than this section) and the amount so calculated shall then be reduced in accordance with this section.
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