Local Government Act, 1946
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Expenses of commissioners of town not an urban district. |
26.—(1) The moneys required to meet the expenses of the commissioners of a town which is not an urban district shall be supplied to the commissioners by the council of the county in which the town is situate on an annual estimate and demand in the prescribed form. | |
(2) A sum which immediately before the commencement of this section remained due and unpaid to the commissioners of a town which is not an urban district for rates shall become a sum due and unpaid to the council of the county in which the town is situate and shall be recoverable by or on behalf of such council, whether by action, distress or otherwise, in like manner as if it were due and unpaid to such council for rates made by them to meet an annual demand of such commissioners made in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section, and such sum shall, on being so recovered, be applied in like manner as if it had been recovered in respect of rates made as aforesaid. | ||
(3) A person who— | ||
(a) immediately before the commencement of this section held the office of collector of rates under the commissioners of a town, and | ||
(b) had held that office for not less than ten years, and | ||
(c) is not entitled under any enactment other than this subsection to compensation for the abolition of that office, | ||
shall be paid by such commissioners on account of such abolition a gratuity equal to either— | ||
(i) one-fifteenth of his yearly salary and emoluments, within the meaning of Part IV of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), in respect of that office for each complete year of his service, or | ||
(ii) such yearly salary and emoluments, | ||
whichever is the less. | ||
(4) A person who immediately before the commencement of this section— | ||
(a) held the office of collector of rates under the commissioners of a town, and | ||
(b) also held another office or offices under the said commissioners or any other local authority, and | ||
(c) devoted the whole of his time to the duties of all the said offices, and | ||
(d) was a pensionable officer for the purposes of Part IV of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), | ||
shall be deemed for the purposes of the said Part IV, for so long as he shall continue to hold such other office or other offices, to devote the whole of his time to the duties of such other office or other offices (as the case may be). |