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Reclamation of land.
42 & 43 Vict. c. 77.
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31. [1]
(1.) The Treasury may authorise the Board of Works to advance from time to time out of any moneys in their hands to companies, if they are satisfied with the security, such sums as the Treasury think expedient for the purpose of the reclamation or improvement of waste or uncultivated land or foreshores, drainage of land, or for building of labourers’ dwellings, or any other works of agricultural improvement.
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(2.) The Treasury may authorise the Board of Works to make advances for like purposes to an occupier of land, when satisfied that the tenancy or other security which he may have to offer is such as to insure repayment of principal and interest within such number of years as the Treasury may fix, or when the landlord joins the occupier in giving such security.
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Any advance to an occupier under this sub-section shall be subject to the provisions of the Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Acts, so far as the Treasury[1]
may declare the same to be applicable, and shall have priority over all charges and incumbrances whatever upon the tenancy of such occupier, except rent, unless the landlord is a party to the advance, and agrees to postpone the rent to it; but before such advance is made one month’s previous notice thereof shall be given in a newspaper circulating in the district within which the said holding is situated, and in such other manner as the Board of Works may prescribe; and such advance shall not have priority over any charge or incumbrance of which the Board of Works may have had notice in writing given them before making the advance.
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(3.) [2]
The Board of Works shall not make to any company in pursuance of this section any advances exceeding in the whole the sums which such company may, within such period as may be determined by the Board of Works, have advanced or expended out of their own moneys for some one of the purposes of this section, nor any advances without proper security that those advances shall be expended for such purposes as aforesaid in addition to the sums advanced or expended by the company out of their own moneys.
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(4.) Advances made by the Board of Works to a company in pursuance of this section shall be made repayable within such periods and at such rate of interest as are set forth in a minute of the Treasury made on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, with reference to loans to which section two of the Public Works Loans Act, 1879, applies, or as the Treasury may from time to time fix in pursuance of that section, and save as regards such periods and rate of interest the enactments relating to loans made by the Board of Works for the like purposes to those above in this section mentioned shall, so far as is consistent with this section, apply in like manner as if an advance under this section were a loan made in pursuance of those enactments.
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[S. 32 rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 48. s. 35 (4).]
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Supplemental Provisions.
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[S. 33 rep. 59 & 60 Vict. c. 47. s. 52.]
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[1The planting of trees is to be included among the purposes for which money may be advanced by the Board of Works under this section. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 43. s. 20.]
[1This power may be exercised from time to time as occasion requires, and any declaration made under this power may, as to any subsequent advance, modify any previous declaration. 55 & 56 Vict. c. 65. s. 8.]
[2The conditions and limitations contained in this sub-section may be modified or dispensed with by the Board of Works, with the consent of the Treasury, in any special cases in which the Lord Lieutenant may for special reasons, to be stated under his hand, recommend that it is proper to do so. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 43. s. 21.] |