No. 3/1931:

PUBLIC HEALTH (SPECIAL EXPENSES) ACT, 1931

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Definitions.

2 Contribution by county council to cost of works.

3 Apportionment of special expenses.

4 Contributory places.

5 Short title and citation.

AN ACT TO ENABLE COUNTY COUNCILS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COST OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF WORKS EXECUTED BY BOARDS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND BOARDS OF HEALTH AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE AREAS OF CHARGE OF SPECIAL EXPENSES INCURRED BY SUCH BOARDS.

[24th March, 1931.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

1.—In this Act:—

the expression "board of health" includes both a board of public health and a board of health and public assistance;

the expression "the Minister" means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

2.—(1) The council of a county may agree with the board of health for a county health district situate in such county to pay to such board, for such period of years as may be agreed upon between such council and such board, an annual sum by way of contribution towards the expenses incurred (whether before or after the passing of this Act) by such board in the execution of a work to which this section applies, and thereupon such council shall pay such annual sum to such board accordingly.

(2) Every annual sum payable by the council of a county to a board of health under this section shall be raised by such council by means of the poor rate equally over the area of the county health district of such board.

(3) The total amount payable under this section by the council of a county to any one board of health in any one local financial year shall not exceed whichever of the following sums is applicable, that is to say:—

( a ) with the approval of the Minister, a sum equivalent to the produce of a rate of threepence in the pound on the valuation under the Valuation Acts of the rateable property in the county health district of such board, or

( b ) without the approval of the Minister, a sum equivalent to the produce of a rate of three-halfpence in the pound on the said valuation.

(4) This section applies only to works complying with both the following conditions, that is to say:—

( a ) that the work consists of the provision or improvement of sewers or of sewage disposal or the provision or improvement of a supply of water for a place situate within the county health district of the board of health by which the work is executed; and

( b ) that so much of the capital cost of the work as is defrayed by a board of health is so defrayed out of borrowed moneys and the expenses of the repayment of such moneys are raisable as special expenses under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, as amended by the Local Government Acts, 1925 and 1927, off an area less than a county health district.

3.—(1) When the Minister determines, under section 232 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, as amended by section 14 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), and by this Act, the area of charge of any special expenses incurred by a board of health, the Minister may determine that such expenses shall be chargeable, as between a contributory place and any sub-contributory place or places situate in such contributory place, in such proportions as the Minister shall think proper to specify in that behalf.

(2) The proportion of any special expenses apportioned under this section to a contributory place or a sub-contributory place shall be deemed to be special expenses incurred in or in respect of such contributory place or sub-contributory place, as the case may be.

(3) In this section the expression "contributory place" has the same meaning as it has in section 232 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, as amended by section 14 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), and by this Act, and the expression "sub-contributory place" means a contributory place which is situate within and forms portion of a larger contributory place.

4.—A district electoral division shall be a contributory place for the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, in addition to the areas mentioned in that behalf in sub-section (4) of section 14 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5. of 1925).

5.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Special Expenses) Act, 1931 .

(2) The Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, Part II of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), so much of the Local Government Act, 1927 (No. 3 of 1927), as relates to public health and this Act may be cited together as the Public Health Acts, 1878 to 1931.