No. 46/1961:

TURF DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1961

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Advances to Board out of Central Fund.

2 Amendment of section 1 of Turf Development Act, 1957.

3 Sale and letting of houses built by Board.

4 Short title, construction and collective citation.

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE TURF DEVELOPMENT ACTS, 1946 TO 1959.

[20th December, 1961.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1.—(1) Section 53 of the Turf Development Act, 1946 is hereby mended by the substitution for subsection (1) (inserted therein by he Turf Development Act, 1959 ) of the following subsection:

"(1) For the purpose of enabling the Board to exercise or perform its functions, the Minister for Finance may, under this section and on the recommendation of the Minister, advance from time to time to the Board, out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof, such sum (not exceeding in the aggregate twenty-four million pounds) as the Board may from time to time request."

(2) Section 1 of the Turf Development Act, 1959 , is hereby repealed.

2.— Section 1 of the Turf Development Act, 1957 (which relates to certain borrowing powers of the Board) is hereby amended by the substitution of "twenty-four million pounds" for "nineteen million pounds" (inserted therein by the Turf Development Act, 1959 ).

3.—(1) The Board may sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of houses built pursuant to a scheme under section 5 of the Turf Development Act, 1950 , and not required by the Board for occupation by its servants.

(2) The Board may let to persons other than servants of the Board houses built pursuant to a scheme under the said section 5.

4.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Turf Development Act, 1961 .

(2) The Turf Development Acts, 1946 to 1959, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act and may be cited together as the Turf Development Acts, 1946 to 1961.