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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (No. 2) ACT, 1960

PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Short title, collective citation and construction.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government (No. 2) Act, 1960.

(2) The collective citation “the Local Government Acts, 1925 to 1960” shall include this Act.

(3) The Local Government Acts, 1925 to 1960, shall be construed together as one Act.

Interpretation.

2. —(1) In this Act “the appropriate Minister” means—

(a) if the relevant borrowing, lending or acquisition relates to matters as respects which the Ministerial functions relating to them are vested in a single Minister other than the Minister for Local Government—that Minister,

(b) if it relates to matters as respects which the Ministerial functions relating to them are vested in two or more Ministers (neither or none of whom is the Minister for Local Government)—such one of those Ministers as has the greater or greatest interest in the matters, and

(c) in all other cases—the Minister for Local Government.

(2) If, in relation to paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection, any doubt arises as to which one of two or more Ministers has the greater or greatest interest, the doubt shall be determined by the Minister for Local Government.

(3) In this Act “land” includes water and any estate or interest in land or water and any easement or right in, to or over land or water.

(4) References in this Act to borrowing include references to reborrowing.

Laying of regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas.

3. —Every regulation made under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.