Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836, Amendment Act, 1908
GRAND JURY (IRELAND) ACT, 1836, AMENDMENT ACT 1908 | ||
CHAPTER 29. | ||
An Act to amend section sixty-seven of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 , with respect to Piers, Quays, and other Works, and for other purposes connected therewith. [1st August 1908.] | ||
BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: | ||
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Amendment of 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 116. |
1. The following amendments shall be made in section sixty-seven of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 , as adapted by the Local Government (Adaptation of Irish Enactments) Order, 1899:— | |
(a) For “three hundred pounds” there shall be substituted “fifteen hundred pounds” as the maximum sum which the council of a county may resolve to levy off the county for any work undertaken under that section: | ||
(b) The conditions as regards payment to the county treasurer, and as regards the certifying of such payment, shall not apply in any case where the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland (in this Act referred to as the Department) have agreed in manner provided by this Act to contribute to the expenses of the work any sum not less than one-third of the sum for which the work is contracted for. | ||
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Agreements of the Department. |
2.—(1) The Department, where they propose out of funds at their disposal to contribute to the expenses of any work undertaken by a county council under section sixty-seven of the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 , as amended by this Act, may for the purposes of this Act enter into an agreement with the council to contribute to those expenses a sum to be mentioned in the agreement. | |
(2) Such agreement may (amongst other things) provide for the work being carried out by or under the supervision of the Department, and the work may be so carried out accordingly. | ||
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Saving of rights of Crown and Government Departments. |
3. Nothing in this Act shall affect prejudicially any right, power, privilege, or exemption of the Crown or vested in or exerciseable by any Government Department. | |
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Saving of rights acquired by Charter, &c. |
4. Nothing in this Act shall authorise the doing of any act which would prejudice or affect any right, franchise, privilege, power, jurisdiction, or authority acquired by or given or reserved to any person by Royal Charter, by prescription, or by any local or special Act without the consent in writing of such person. | |
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Short title and construction. |
5. This Act may be cited as the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836, Amendment Act, 1908, and shall be construed as one with the Local Government (Ireland) Acts, 1898 to 1902. |