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Payments in aid to boards of health.
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9.—(1) The Minister may, out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas, pay, in respect of any local financial year and in accordance with regulations made under this Act, to a board of health to whom this Act applies and who provide meals during such year under and in accordance with this Act and regulations made thereunder a sum not exceeding whichever of the following amounts is the less towards the expenses incurred by such board of health in such year in providing food under this Act, that is to say:—
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(a) one-half of such expenses, and
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(b) a sum which bears to the sum of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds) the same proportion as the number of children certified by the Minister for Education under this section to have attended national schools in the scheduled area of such board of health during the prescribed period for such year bears to the number of children certified by the said Minister to have attended national schools in the Gaeltacht during the said period.
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(2) For the purposes of the certificates of the Minister for Education referred to in the foregoing sub-section the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—
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(a) the said Minister shall prescribe in relation to every local financial year a period of twelve months which shall be the prescribed period for such year, and
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(b) the number of children attending any school or schools shall be ascertained and calculated in such manner as the said Minister shall think proper.
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(3) For the purposes of this section the period commencing on the 1st day of October, 1930, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1931, shall be deemed to be a local financial year, but in the application of this section to that period the sum of £5,000 (five thousand pounds) shall be substituted in sub-section (1) for the sum of £10,000 (ten thousand pounds).
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