Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958
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Contributions by county councils to committees of agriculture. |
2.—(1) The council of a county shall, in the local financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1958, and every subsequent local financial year, make to the committee of agriculture for the county a contribution under this subsection of not less than twice and not more than fifteen times the produce of a rate in the preceding local financial year of one penny in the pound in the area consisting of the county exclusive of every (if any) urban district therein. | |
(2) Where the Minister has made a forestry scheme order in respect of a county, the council of the county shall, in every local financial year after the date of the order if so required by the Minister during the preceding local financial year, but not otherwise, make to the committee of agriculture for the county a contribution under this subsection of not more than half the produce of a rate in such preceding local financial year of one penny in the pound in the area consisting of the county exclusive of every (if any) urban district therein. | ||
(3) In subsection (1) and in subsection (2) of this section “produce” means the net produce calculated in the manner and certified in the form prescribed for the purposes of subsection (6) of section 10 of the Local Government Act, 1946 (No. 24 of 1946), as amended by section 50 of the Local Government Act, 1955 (No. 9 of 1955). | ||
(4) Subsections (1) and (2) of section 36 of the Principal Act shall not apply in relation to the local financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1958, or any subsequent local financial year. | ||
(5) All acts and things done before the passing of this Act by the council of a county in relation to the making of any rate for the local financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1958, shall be as valid and effectual as if the foregoing provisions of this section were in force at the time those acts or things were done. |