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Reference to Privy Council of objections to Lord Lieutenant’s decision.
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12.—(1) Not less than one month before a decision of the Lord Lieutenant as to the share in any fund or sum or the rights or burdens of any county, local authority, or person, in respect of payments out of the Guarantee Fund or the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account is finally given, notice of the proposed decision shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and in at least one newspaper circulating in each county concerned, and if during such month any authority or person interested sends to the Lord Lieutenant an objection to the proposed decision, in writing, stating the reasons for the same, then such objection shall be referred to the Privy Council, and after hearing the objector and any other authority or person, if such objector, authority, or person appears to the Privy Council to be interested and desires to be heard, and after hearing what is offered on behalf of the Crown, the Privy Council shall advise the Lord Lieutenant thereon, and the decision of the Lord Lieutenant shall be suspended until the advice is given, and shall be in accordance with such advice.
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(2) The Privy Council may order costs, on a scale to be settled by the Lord Chancellor, to be paid by or to the objector or by or to any authority or person appearing or cited to appear, including the Crown.
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(3) This section shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to a declaration by the Lord Lieutenant as to the proportion between the total number of holdings and those of a rateable value exceeding fifty pounds, and in that case any ten persons whose position (whether as vendors or purchasers) as respects advances under this Act may be affected by the declaration, shall be deemed to be pecuniarily interested.
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