Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1902

Amendment of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 37. s. 51 (7) as to time for payments of debts, &c.

4. The time within which the payment of any debt, claim or demand, mentioned in subsection (7) of section fifty-one of the principal Act, may be made may be extended by the Local Government Board to a time not exceeding two years from the date at which the same was incurred or became due, in any case in which that Board are of opinion that there were reasonable grounds for delay in taking legal proceedings, or, where any such debt, claim or demand was incurred or became due at any time between the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine and the first day of April one thousand nine hundred and one, the aforesaid time may be extended by the Local Government Board to the first day of April next after the passing of this Act.