10 1983

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Number 10 of 1983


LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1983


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Determination and making of rates by local authorities in local financial years to which they relate.

2.

Short title, collective citation and construction.


Acts Referred to

Local Government Act, 1946

1946, No. 24

Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1978

1978, No. 35

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Number 10 of 1983


LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1983


AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACTS, 1925 to 1979. [11th May, 1983]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Determination and making of rates by local authorities in local financial years to which they relate.

1. —(1) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that, notwithstanding anything in section 29 of the Local Government Act, 1946 , the power of a local authority to determine and make a rate, or a rate in the pound, shall be validly and effectually exercisable at any time in the local financial year to which the rate, or the rate in the pound, so determined or made relates.

(2) As well as applying to a rate, or a rate in the pound, determined and made after the passing of this Act, subsection (1) of this section also applies, and shall be deemed always to have applied, to rates determined and made before such passing and on or after the passing of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1978 .

Short title, collective citation and construction.

2. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1983.

(2) The Local Government Acts, 1925 to 1979, and this Act may be cited together as the Local Government Acts, 1925 to 1983, and shall be construed together as one Act.