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98.—Every act, matter, or thing which was commenced before the appointed day by or against a local authority or a committee appointed under the Act of 1889 and the Act of 1899 or either of those Acts by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly and remains pending or uncompleted on the appointed day and was so commenced in exercise or performance or in relation to the exercise or performance of functions, powers, or duties transferred by this Part of this Act, may, on and after the appointed day, be continued and completed by or against the vocational education committee to which such functions, duties, and powers are so transferred, and for that purpose— (a) in all legal proceedings to which any such local authority or any committee appointed as aforesaid is a party and which relate to the exercise or performance of such functions, powers, or duties and are pending on the appointed day, such vocational education committee may be added as a party in lieu of such local authority or committee; and (b) all contracts and agreements to which any such local authority or any committee appointed as aforesaid is a party and which relate to such functions, powers, and duties and are on the appointed day not fully executed or completed shall have effect on and after the appointed day as if such vocational education committee had been named as a party thereto in place of such local authority or such committee.

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Transfer of officers to vocational education committees.

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99.—(1) Every person who, on the day before the appointed day, is an officer of a local authority or of a committee appointed under the Act of 1889 and the Act of 1899 or either of those Acts by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly and is employed by such authority or committee on duties relating wholly or partly to functions, powers, and duties transferred from such authority or committee by this Part of this Act shall, on the appointed day and subject to the provisions of this section, be transferred to and become and be an officer of the vocational education committee to which such functions, powers, and duties are so transferred.

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(2)Every officer transferred by this section shall, subject to the provisions of this section, perform in the service of the vocational education committee to which he is so transferred the like duties as he performed in the service from which he is so transferred.
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(3)Every officer transferred by this section shall not, in the service of the vocational education committee to which he is so transferred, receive less remuneration or, subject to the provisions of this section, be subject to less beneficial conditions of service than the remuneration to which he was entitled and the conditions of service to which he was subject in the service from which he is so transferred.
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(4)A vocational education committee may, with the approval of the Minister, re-distribute or re-arrange the duties to be performed by officers transferred to it by this section and every such officer shall be bound to perform the duties allotted to him on any such re-distribution or re-arrangement, and no such re-distribution or re-arrangement shall be deemed to be a removal from or abolition of office for the purposes of the enactments relating to superannuation and compensation for loss of office.
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(5)A vocational education committee may, with the sanction of the Minister, and shall, when so directed by the Minister, abolish the office of any officer transferred to it by this section and every such officer whose office is so abolished shall, for the purpose of the enactments relating to superannuation and compensation for loss of office, be deemed to have been removed from office by such committee for a cause other than misconduct or incapacity.
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(6)When an officer transferred by this section is, immediately before the appointed day, employed by a committee whose functions, powers, and duties are transferred by this Part of this Act, and is at the same time employed by a committee whose functions, powers, and duties are not so transferred, the transfer of such officer by this section shall apply and have effect in relation only to his employment by such first-mentioned committee.
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(7)The following provisions shall have effect in relation to every officer transferred by this section who, immediately before the appointed day, is employed by the local authority or committee from whose service he is so transferred on duties relating in part to functions, powers, or duties transferred by this Part of this Act and in part to other functions, powers, or duties, that is to say:— (a) the transfer of such officer by this section shall extend and apply only to such of his duties (in this section referred to as transferred duties) as relate to functions, powers, and duties transferred by this Part of this Act, and he shall as respects all his other duties continue to be an officer of the local authority or committee of which he was an officer on the day before the appointed day; (b) for the purposes of the provisions of this section relating to the duties to be performed by him after such transfer, his duties before such transfer shall be deemed to have been his transferred duties only; (c) his remuneration immediately before such transfer shall be apportioned as between his transferred duties and his other duties and, for the purposes of the provisions of this section relating to his remuneration after such transfer and to the abolition of his office, his remuneration before such transfer shall be deemed to have been so much only of such remuneration as is on such apportionment appropriated to his transferred duties; (d) every question or dispute arising in the application of the provisions of this sub-section to the case of any particular officer shall be settled by agreement between such officer, the local authority or committee from which he is transferred, and the vocational education committee to which he is transferred, and in default of such agreement shall be decided by the Minister and the Minister for Agriculture jointly, and the decision of those Ministers shall be final.
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PART VIII.

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Amalgamation of Urban District Vocational Education Areas with County Vocational Education Areas.

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Amalgamation of urban district and county vocational education areas.

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100.—(1) The council of a scheduled urban district may, before the 1st day of September in any local financial year after the local financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1931, apply to the Minister for the amalgamation of the vocational education area consisting of such scheduled urban district with the county vocational education area which is included in the county containing such urban district.

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(2)The Minister may at any time, either on the application under the foregoing sub-section of the council of the urban district concerned and with the consent of the council of the county concerned or on his own motion without any such application or consent, by order (in this Act referred to as an amalgamation order) amalgamate an urban district vocational education area with the county vocational education area which is included in the county containing such urban district vocational education area.
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(3)Every amalgamation order shall come into operation on and have effect as on and from the 1st day of April (in this Part of this Act referred to as the commencement of such order) next after the day on which such order is made.
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(4)Every amalgamation order shall be published in the Iris Oifigi[html]il as soon as may be after it is made.
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Effect of amalgamation order.

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101.—Whenever an amalgamation order is made by the Minister under this Part of this Act the urban district to which such order relates shall, on the commencement of such order, cease to be a scheduled urban district within the meaning of this Act, and thenceforth this Act shall have effect in such urban district and in the county containing such urban district as if such urban district were not mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, and for that purpose the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:— (a) on the commencement of such order the urban district vocational education area (in this section referred to as the urban area) which was co-terminous with the said urban district shall become and be amalgamated with and added to the county vocational education area (in this section referred to as the county area) which was theretofore included in the county containing such urban district; (b) the vocational education committee for the urban area shall, on the commencement of such order, be dissolved; (c) the council of the said urban district shall, before the commencement of such order, elect two persons or, where the county area contains at the time of such election four or more urban districts, one person to be members or a member of the vocational education committee for the county area; (d) a member of the vocational education committee for the county area elected under the foregoing paragraph shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office as such member until the commencement of the next following triennial meeting of such committee; (e) where before the commencement of such order the county area contains four urban districts, one of the two members of the vocational education committee for such area elected by the respective councils of such urban districts shall on the commencement of such order cease to be a member of such committee and each such council shall before the commencement of such order determine which of the two members of such committee elected by it shall so cease to be a member of such committee and on the failure of any such council to make such determination such determination shall be made by the Minister as soon as may be after the commencement of such order; (f) the vocational education committee for the county area shall, when preparing its annual scheme for the year commencing at the commencement of such order, consult with the vocational education committee for the urban area.

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Ancillary provisions in amalgamation orders.

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102.—(1) Whenever the Minister makes an amalgamation order under this Part of this Act he shall by such order make such provision as he shall think proper, subject to the provisions of this section, for the following matters, that is to say:— (a) the transfer of the property of the vocational education committee for the urban district vocational education area to which such order relates (in this section referred to as the urban committee) from that committee to the vocational education committee for the county vocational education area to which the order relates (in this section referred to as the county committee); (b) the payment or discharge by the county committee of the debts and liabilities of the urban committee; (c) the transfer from the service of the urban committee to the service of the county committee of such of the officers of the urban committee as the Minister shall think proper so to transfer, and the remuneration, conditions of service, and duties of such officers after such transfer; (d) the removal from office of such of the officers of the urban committee as are not transferred to the service of the county committee; (e) the continuation or completion by or against the county committee of pending legal proceedings, contracts, agreements, and other matters and things in which the urban committee is concerned.

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(2)The Minister may at any time by order amend so much of an amalgamation order as relates to matters provided for thereby in pursuance of this section.
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(3)An officer who is transferred by an amalgamation order from the service of the urban committee to the service of the county committee shall not, in the service of the county committee, receive less remuneration or be subject to less beneficial conditions of service than the remuneration to which he was entitled and the conditions of service to which he was subject in the service of the urban committee immediately before such transfer.
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(4)For the purpose of the enactments relating to superannuation and compensation for loss of office an officer who is removed from office by an amalgamation order shall be deemed to have been so removed after the commencement of such order by the county committee for a cause other than misconduct or incapacity.
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PART IX.

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General Powers of the Minister.

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Continuation education and technical education in the Gaeltacht.

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103.—(1) Where a vocational education area or part of a vocational education area is included in the Gaeltacht and the Minister is of opinion that, having regard to the conditions in such area or such part, it is essential that special provision should be made in relation to continuation education or technical education in such area or such part, he may make an order requiring the vocational education committee for such area to make such special provision in relation to continuation education or technical education in such area or such part as may be specified in such order and it shall be the duty of such committee to comply with the terms of such order.

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(2)Where the Minister makes an order under the foregoing sub-section in relation to a vocational education committee, he may with the consent of the Minister for Finance, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make special grants to such committee.
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(3)The Minister may at any time by order revoke or vary any order made by him under the first sub-section or this sub-section of this section.
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(4)The Minister may, by order made under this sub-section, declare that any particular portion or portions of Saorst[html]t Eireann specified in such order shall form part of the Gaeltacht, and whenever any such order is made the portion or portions of Saorst[html]t Eireann to which such order relates shall be deemed for the purposes of this section but no further or otherwise to form part of the Gaeltacht.
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(5)Every order made by the Minister under the foregoing sub-section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after such order is laid before it annulling such order, such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such order.
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Consultative councils.

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104.—(1) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he so thinks fit, establish by order a consultative council for giving advice and assistance to him in relation to such matters (being matters relating to the carrying into execution of the provisions of this Act) as he shall specify in such order or in any subsequent order.

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(2)A consultative council established under this section shall consist of such persons having experience or special knowledge of the matters on which such council may give advice or assistance to the Minister as the Minister shall from time to time nominate to be members thereof.
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(3)Every member of a consultative council established under this section shall, unless he previously dies or resigns, retain his membership for two years only from the date of his nomination, but shall be eligible for re-nomination.
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(4)A consultative council established under this section shall meet whenever summoned by the Minister.
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(5)Payments may be made by the Minister, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to members of a consultative council established under this section or of a committee thereof, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, in respect of repayment of travelling expenses and payment of subsistence allowance.
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Local inquiries by the Minister.

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105.—(1) The Minister may at any time cause an inquiry (in this Act referred to as a local inquiry) to be held in relation to the performance by a vocational education committee of its duties under this Act or in relation to the performance by an officer or a servant of a vocational education committee of his duties as such officer or servant (as the case may be) and for that purpose may appoint an officer of the Minister to hold such local inquiry.

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(2)Where the Minister causes a local inquiry to be held he may, if he so thinks fit, make an order directing the costs incurred in relation to such inquiry to be paid by the vocational education committee concerned, and any such order shall certify the amount of such costs and the amount so certified shall be a debt due by such committee to the Minister and shall be recoverable by the Minister from such committee as a civil debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.
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(3)Any moneys due by a vocational education committee to the Minister under this section shall be paid by such committee out of its vocational education fund.
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(4)For the purposes of this section the costs of any local inquiry shall be deemed to include such reasonable expenses of witnesses attending such inquiry as the Minister shall allow.
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Attendance of witnesses at local inquiries.

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106.—(1) An officer appointed by the Minister to hold a local inquiry may by summons in the prescribed form signed by him require any person to attend at the time and place (not being a place more than thirty miles from the residence of such person) named in such summons and there and then to give evidence or produce any document in his power, possession, or procurement relating to any matter in question at such inquiry or do both such things.

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(2)A summons issued under this section shall be served by delivering it to the person to whom it is addressed or by leaving it for him with a person of the age of sixteen years or more at the usual place of abode of such first mentioned person.
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(3)If any person— (a) on being duly served with a summons under this section makes default in attending in accordance with such summons; or (b) being in attendance at a local inquiry as a witness refuses to take an oath legally required by the officer holding such inquiry to be taken by him or to produce any document in his possession, power or control legally required by such officer to be produced by him or to answer any question to which such officer may legally require an answer, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
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(4)A witness before an officer holding a local inquiry shall be entitled to the same immunities and privileges as if he were a witness before the High Court.
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Administration of oaths at local inquiries.

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107.—An officer appointed by the Minister to hold a local inquiry shall have power to take evidence on oath and for that purpose may administer oaths to persons attending before him as witnesses.

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Dissolution of vocational education committees.

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108.—(1) If and whenever— (a) the Minister is satisfied after the holding of a local inquiry that the duties of a vocational education committee are not being duly and effectively discharged by such committee; or (b) a vocational education committee wilfully neglects to comply with any lawful order, direction, or regulation of the Minister; or (c) a vocational education committee fails to comply with any judgment, order, or decree of any court in Saorst[html]t Eireann; or (d) a vocational education committee refuses after due notice to allow its accounts to be audited by an auditor appointed for the purpose under this Act; the Minister may by order dissolve such committee and, as he may think fit, either order (under the power hereinafter conferred on him) a new election of members of such committee or transfer the property and the several powers and duties of such committee to any body or person or persons.

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(2)Whenever the Minister makes an order under this section dissolving a vocational education committee, he may appoint such and so many persons as he shall think fit to perform the duties of such committee, and may from time to time remove all or any such persons and appoint others in their place, and may fix the tenure of office, duties and remuneration of all such persons.
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(3)The remuneration of all persons appointed under the foregoing sub-section shall be paid out of the vocational education fund of the dissolved committee.
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(4)In either the first or the second election year after a vocational education committee has been dissolved under this section, the Minister shall by order cause a new election of members of such committee to be made, and upon the completion of such new election all the properties, powers, and duties of the dissolved committee shall vest in the committee so elected, notwithstanding that the same may have been transferred by the Minister under this section to any other body, persons or person.
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(5)The Minister may from time to time by order do all such things and make all such regulations as in his opinion shall be necessary for giving full effect to any order made by him under this section.
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Grants to certain schools.

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109.—The Minister may, in accordance with regulations made by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make grants in respect of continuation education or technical education to schools providing continuation education or technical education which are not schools established and maintained by a vocational education committee.

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Grants by the Minister.

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110.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, provide for or make grants for the training of teachers for the purposes of this Act.

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(2)The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make provision for scholarships.
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Scales of salaries for teachers.

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111.—(1) The Minister may by regulations made under this Act prescribe scales of salaries for the various classes of teachers employed by vocational education committees.

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(2)A vocational education committee shall not pay to any teacher employed by it a salary which is less than the salary to which such teacher is entitled in accordance with the scale prescribed by the said regulations in respect of the class of teachers lo which such teacher belongs.
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Travelling expenses for officers.

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112.—The Minister may by regulations made under this Act prescribe the minimum rates of travelling and maintenance expenses payable to teachers and officers of vocational education committees who have to travel in the performance of their duties.

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Training and certification of teachers.

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113.—(1) The Minister may make regulations in relation to the training and certification of teachers for schools and courses provided by a vocational education committee under this Act.

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(2)Where a student accepted by the Minister for training as a teacher enters, in pursuance of regulations made under this section, into an undertaking with the Minister that he will, in consideration of any grant made by the Minister in respect of his maintenance and training, complete the course of training specified in the undertaking and will subsequently follow the profession of teacher in the manner and for the period specified in the undertaking and in the event of failure so to do will repay to the Minister such proportion of the grant made by the Minister as is specified in the undertaking, the undertaking shall be binding on him notwithstanding that he was an infant at the time when the undertaking was given and any sums repayable in accordance with the undertaking shall be recoverable by the Minister as a civil debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Inspection of schools.

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114.—(1) An inspector shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter and inspect any school in respect of which any grant is made by the Minister under this Act and any school or course which is maintained or assisted by a vocational education committee.

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(2)Every person who obstructs or impedes any inspector in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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Records to be kept by schools in receipt of grants.

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115.—It shall be the duty of the principal teacher of every school in respect of which any grant is made by the Minister under this Act (not being a school maintained by a vocational education committee) to keep such registers and records as may be prescribed, and to permit such registers and records to be inspected at all reasonable times by an inspector.

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Facilities to teachers.

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116.—Whenever the Minister accepts for further training any teacher employed by a vocational education committee such committee shall afford to such teacher, in such manner and on such terms as the Minister considers proper, such facilities as will enable such teacher to avail himself of such further training.

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PART X.

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Miscellaneous.

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Special provision in relation to Dublin and Cork.

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117.—(1) In this section— the expression “the Dublin Act” means the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930 (No. 27 of 1930); the expression “the City Corporation” means the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin; the expression “the Borough Corporation” means the Corporation of Dun Laoghaire; the expression “the City vocational education area” means the vocational education area which is co-terminous with the county borough of Dublin; the expression “the City vocational education committee” means the vocational education committee for the City vocational education area; the expression “the Borough vocational education area” means the vocational education area which is co-terminous with the Borough of Dun Laoghaire; the expression “the Borough vocational education committee” means the vocational education committee for the Borough vocational education area; the expression “the County vocational education area” means the vocational education area which is co-terminous with the County of Dublin exclusive of the Borough of Dun Laoghaire; the expression “the County vocational education committee” means the vocational education committee for the County vocational education area; the expression “the added rural area” has the meaning given to it by section 1 of the Dublin Act.

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(2)The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the application of this Act in the county borough of Dublin, that is to say:— (a) the areas which, at the passing of this Act, are respectively the urban district of Pembroke and the urban district of Rathmines and Rathgar shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be included in and to form part of the county borough of Dublin as from the passing of this Act; (b) the added rural area shall, in accordance with the Dublin Act, become included in and form part of the county borough of Dublin on and from the 1st day of April, 1931; (c) in the construction of references in this Act (including this section) to the county borough of Dublin, whether specifically or as included in a reference to county boroughs generally, regard shall be had to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this sub-section and also to the provisions of the Dublin Act whereby the added rural area becomes included in and forms part of the county borough of Dublin on and from the 1st day of April, 1931; (d) in the preparation, consideration and approval of the annual scheme for the City vocational education area for the local financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1931, regard shall be had to the fact that the added rural area will be included in the county borough of Dublin in that year; (e) section 24 of the Dublin Act shall not apply to any officer of the council of the urban district of Pembroke or of the council of the urban district of Rathmines and Rathgar or of a committee of either of those councils who is transferred by that Act to the service of the City Corporation and is subsequently transferred by this Act to the service of the City vocational education committee and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that every such officer shall, while he is in the service of the City Corporation by virtue of his said transfer thereto, perform the same duties and be entitled to the same salary and emoluments and the same conditions of service as he performed and was entitled to in the service of the said council or committee immediately before his said transfer therefrom; (f) during the period between the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of the Dublin Act and the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of
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of this Act, the City Corporation shall itself administer without the intervention of any committee the services which will become transferred on the last-mentioned appointed day to the City vocational education committee by virtue of this Act; (g) sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 40 of the Dublin Act shall not apply in relation to the election of the members of the City vocational education committee; (h) at the first meeting of the City vocational education committee the Dublin City Manager and Town Clerk shall act as secretary to such committee.

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(3)The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the application of this Act in the Borough of Dun Laoghaire, that is to say:— (a) for the purposes of this Act the Borough of Dun Laoghaire shall be deemed to come into existence on the passing of this Act; (b) section 24 of the Dublin Act shall not apply to any officer of the council of the urban district of Blackrock, the council of the urban district of Dun Laoghaire or the council of the urban district of Dalkey or of any committee of any of those councils who is transferred by that Act to the service of the Borough Corporation and is subsequently transferred by this Act to the service of the Borough vocational education committee and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that every such officer shall, while he is in the service of the Borough Corporation by virtue of his said transfer thereto, perform the same duties and be entitled to the same salary and emoluments and the same conditions of service as he performed and was entitled to in the service of the said council or committee immediately before his said transfer therefrom; (c) during the period between the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of the Dublin Act and the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of
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of this Act, the Borough Corporation shall itself administer without the intervention of any committee the services in the Borough of Dun Laoghaire (other than the area which is at the passing of this Act the urban district of Killiney and Ballybrack) which will become transferred on the last-mentioned appointed day to the Borough vocational education committee by virtue of this Act; (d) section 48 of the Dublin Act shall not apply in relation to the election of the members of the Borough vocational education committee; (e) at the first meeting of the Borough vocational education committee the Dun Laoghaire Borough Manager and Town Clerk shall act as secretary to such committee.

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(4)The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the application of this Act in the county of Dublin, that is to say:— (a) section 20 of the Dublin Act shall not apply in respect of any officer of the council of the county of Dublin or of any joint committee of such council and the council of an urban district who is transferred by this Act to the service of the County vocational education committee; (b) in the construction of references in this Act (including this section) to the county of Dublin whether specifically or as included in a reference to counties generally, regard shall be had to the provisions of the Dublin Act whereby the added rural area is transferred from the county of Dublin to the county borough of Dublin on and from the 1st day of April, 1931; (c) in the preparation, consideration and approval of the annual scheme for the County vocational education area for the local financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1931, regard shall be had to the fact that the added rural area will not be included in the county of Dublin in that year.
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(5)The City vocational education committee shall have the same powers of granting compensation in respect of loss of employment to such of its employees (other than officers) as were, immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of
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of this Act, employees of the City Corporation as the City Corporation would have had if such employees had remained in its employment, and for that purpose the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:— (a) every such employee shall be entitled to reckon his employment by the City Corporation and also his employment (if any) by the council of the urban district of Pembroke or the council of the urban district of Rathmines and Rathgar as employment by the City vocational education committee; and (b) section 53 of the Act of 1925 shall, in relation to such employees only, apply to the City vocational education committee as if that committee was a local body such as is mentioned in that section but with the modification that references in that section to section 50 of that Act shall be construed as references to the provisions of this Act which are enacted in substitution for the said section 50.

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(6)Sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 18 of the Cork City Management Act, 1929 (No. 1 of 1929) shall not apply in relation to the election of the members of the vocational education committee for the vocational education area which is co-terminous with the county borough of Cork.
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Special provisions in relation to Bray Urban District.

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118.—(1) In this section the expression “the Bray Council” means the council of the urban district of Bray; the expression “the Bray vocational education committee” means the vocational education committee for the vocational education area which is co-terminous with the urban district of Bray; the expression “the North Wicklow committee” means the joint committee appointed for the purposes of technical instruction under the Act of 1899 by the council of the County of Wicklow and the Bray Council.

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(2)The following provisions shall have effect in relation to the application of
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of this Act to the North Wicklow committee that is to say:— (a) the functions, powers and duties which, immediately before the appointed day, are exercised and performed through or by the North Wicklow committee shall, in so far as they relate to the urban district of Bray, be transferred by section 95 of this Act to the Bray vocational education committee and shall, in so far as they relate to any other part of the functional area of the North Wicklow committee, be transferred by the said section 95 to the Wicklow county vocational education committee; (b) for the purposes of the said Part VII (except section 95 ), the Bray vocational education committee shall be deemed to be the vocational education committee to which the functions, powers and duties exercised and performed through or by the North Wicklow committee are transferred by the said section 95 and the said Part VII (except section 95 ) shall have effect accordingly; (c) during the period commencing on the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of the said Part VII and ending on the 31st day of March, 1931, the Bray vocational education committee shall provide throughout the functional area of the North Wicklow committee the services which the last-mentioned committee would have been liable to provide in that area if this Act had not been passed; (d) at the first meeting of the Bray vocational education committee the town clerk of the Bray Council shall act as secretary to such Committee.

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(3)The following provisions shall have effect while and for so long as the Bray Council continues to be dissolved under an Order made by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health before the passing of this Act, that is to say:— (a) the functions of the Bray Council in relation to the election of members of the Bray vocational education committee shall be performed by the person who is for the time being performing in consequence of the said order the duties of the Bray Council; (b) so much of section 8 of this Act as would require any members of the Bray vocational education committee to be members of the Bray Council shall not have effect; (c) the functions of the estimates sub-committee (within the meaning of section 45 of this Act) of the Bray vocational education committee shall be performed by the said person who is for the time being performing in consequence of the said order the duties of the Bray Council.
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Service of notices.

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119.—Any notices or other documents required by this Act or any regulations made thereunder to be served or sent may be served or sent by post.

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Inspection and copies of registers of births and deaths.

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120.—(1) Every superintendent registrar or registrar of births or deaths or other person having the custody of the register books kept in accordance with the Births and Deaths Registration Acts (Ireland), 1863 to 1880, shall at all reasonable times permit any attendance officer under

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of this Act or

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of this Act to inspect, without fee or other payment, the register books in the custody of such superintendent registrar, registrar or other person and to take such copies or notes of entries in such books as he shall deem necessary for the purpose of the execution of his duties, as such attendance officer.

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(2)Whenever— (a) any person requires to ascertain or prove for any purpose arising under
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of this Act the age of a young person who resides in a district to which that Part applies; or (b) any person requires to ascertain or prove for any purpose arising under

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Part VI

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of this Act the age of a person to whom that Part applies and who is employed in a district to which that Part applies; such person shall be entitled to obtain from the enforcing authority for such district a requisition in the prescribed form for a certified copy of the entry of the birth of such young person or such person to whom

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Part VI

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. of this Act applies (as the case may be) and shall, on presenting such requisition duly filled up and signed together with a fee of sixpence at the office of the superintendent registrar or the appropriate registrar of births and deaths, be entitled to be supplied by such superintendent registrar or registrar with a copy duly certified under the Births and Deaths Registration Acts (Ireland), 1863 to 1880, of the entry in the register books kept under those Acts of the birth of such young person or persons.

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(3)Every superintendent registrar or registrar of births and deaths shall, as and when so required by an enforcing authority under
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Part V

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of this Act, furnish to such authority a return in the prescribed form (if any) of such of the particulars as shall be specified by such authority of the births and deaths of young persons registered by such registrar.

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(4)Every superintendent registrar or registrar of births and deaths shall, as and when so required by an enforcing authority under
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Part VI

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of this Act, furnish to such authority a return in the prescribed form (if any) of such of the particulars as shall be specified by such authority of the births and deaths of persons to whom

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Part VI

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of this Act applies registered by such registrar.

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Offences in relation to certificates.

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121.—(1) Every person who forges or counterfeits any certificate or any signature to a certificate which if genuine would be a certificate given or made under or for the purpose of

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Part V

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of this Act or

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Part VI

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of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction thereof to suffer imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.

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(2)Every person who signs, gives, or makes any certificate purporting to be a certificate under or for the purpose of
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Part V

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of this Act or

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Part VI

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of this Act which is to his knowledge false or misleading in any material particular, or who makes use of any certificate purporting to be a certificate under or for the purpose of

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Part V

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of this Act or

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Part VI

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of this Act which is to his knowledge forged or counterfeited or is false and misleading in any material particular or any signature which is to his knowledge forged or counterfeited, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

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Exemption from certain disqualifications.

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122.—Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (e) of sub-article (4) of Article 12 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, a person shall not, if otherwise qualified, be disqualified from being elected or chosen or being a member of any vocational education committee or of any sub-committee thereof or of any council, body, or committee which is a local authority within the meaning of the Act of 1925 by reason of his having by himself or his partner received or contracted to receive any benefit or advantage offered to the public in the nature of continuation education and technical education by a vocational education committee.

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Saving for industrial or reformatory schools.

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123.—Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to interfere with or affect any certified industrial school or certified reformatory school.

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Expenses of this Act.

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124.—All expenses incurred by a Minister head of a Department of State in carrying this Act into execution shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

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Regulations.

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125.—(1) The Minister may by order do all or any of the following things, that is to say:— (a) make regulations prescribing any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed or any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed by regulations made under this Act; (b) make regulations in respect of the accounts of vocational education committees and the audit of such accounts; (c) make regulations respecting the procedure of vocational education committees in connection with the business imposed on or transferred to them by this Act.

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(2)Regulations made by the Minister under this section shall, if and so far as they relate to anything referred to in section 120 (which relates to inspection and copies of registers of births and deaths) of this Act as prescribed or to the accounts or the auditing of the accounts of vocational education committees, be made only after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.
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(3)Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if either such House shall, within twenty-one days on which such House has sat after such regulation is laid before it, pass a resolution annulling such regulation, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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Repeals.

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126.—The enactments mentioned in the Fifth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule as on and from the 1st day of April, 1931.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

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The Scheduled Urban Districts.

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The Urban District of Bray.

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The Borough of Drogheda.

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The Borough of Dun Laoghaire.

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The Urban District of Galway.

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The Borough of Sligo.

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The Urban District of Tralee.

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The Borough of Wexford.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

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Rules for Payments of Travelling Expenses.

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1.In these rules— the word “committee” means a vocational education committee which is authorised or required by this Act to pay a contribution towards the expenses incurred by members attending the meetings of such committee or a sub-committee thereof; the word “sub-committee” means a sub-committee of a committee; the word “contribution” means a contribution payable under this Act to a member of a committee or of a sub-committee towards the expenses incurred by him in attending the meetings of such committee or sub-committee.
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2.Every member of a committee shall, at the commencement of his term of office as such member, communicate in writing to the chief executive officer of such committee the address at which he ordinarily resides, which address is referred to in these rules as the official residence of such member.
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3.Every member of a sub-committee who is not a member of the committee by which he is appointed shall, on being appointed a member of such sub-committee, communicate in writing to the chief executive officer of such committee the address at which he ordinarily resides, which address is referred to in these rules as the official address of such member.
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4.The contribution to be paid to a member of a committee or a sub-committee in respect of his attendance at any meeting shall be calculated on the length of the journey from the official residence of such member to the place of meeting of the committee or subcommittee and the mode of transport used for such journey.
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5.Where the journey from the official residence of a member to the place of meeting of the committee or sub-committee could be made by more than one route or by different modes of transport, the journey shall, for the purposes of these rules, be deemed to have been made by the route and the mode of transport in respect of which the payment under these rules would be the least.
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6.There shall be paid to every member to whom a contribution is payable under this Act, a sum calculated in the manner prescribed in the next rule in respect of each meeting of the committee or sub-committee attended by him subject to the limitation that no contribution shall be paid to any such member in respect of a meeting held at a place situate less than five miles by any route from his official residence.
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7.The sum payable under the preceding rule in respect of each meeting shall be calculated as follows, that is to say, four pence for each mile of the journey from the member's official residence to the place of meeting travelled by railway, and five pence for each mile of such journey travelled otherwise than by railway.
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THIRD SCHEDULE.

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Maximum Annual Liabilities in Respect of Annual Local Contributions.

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Part I.

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In County Boroughs and Urban Districts.

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Local Financial Year.

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Number of Pence in the Pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1931 3d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April 1932 3½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1933 3½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1934 4d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1935 4½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1936 4½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1937 4½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1938 5d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1939 5½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1940 5½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1941 5½d. ”

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1942, and every subsequent year.

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6d. ”

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Part II.

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In Counties.

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Local Financial Year.

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Number of Pence in the Pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1931.

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In County Cork, 2d. in the pound.

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In every other county, 1¾d in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1932.

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2d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1933.

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2¼d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1934.

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2½d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1935.

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2¾d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1936.

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3d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1937.

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3¼d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1938.

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3½d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1939.

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3¾d. in the pound.

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Year commencing on 1st April, 1940, and every subsequent year.

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4d. in the pound.

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FOURTH SCHEDULE.

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County or other Boroughs referred to in Parts V and VI of this Act.

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The County Borough of Cork.

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The County Borough of Dublin.

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The County Borough of Limerick.

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The County Borough of Waterford.

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The Borough of Dun Laoghaire.

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FIFTH SCHEDULE.

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Enactments Repealed.

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Session and chapter or number and year.

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Short Title.

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Extent of Repeal.

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52 & 53 Vic. c. 76.

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Technical Instruction Act, 1889.

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The whole Act.

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54 & 55 Vic. c. 4.

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Technical Instruction Act, 1891.

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The whole Act.

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61 & 62 Vic. c. 37.

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Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 .

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Section 7 and sub-section (2) of section 74.

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62 & 63 Vic. c. 50.

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Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899.

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The whole Act so far as relates to technical instruction.

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2 Edw. VII. c. 3 Agricultural and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1902.

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The whole Act so far as relates to technical instruction.

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2 Ed. VII. c. 20 Public Libraries (Ireland) Act, 1902.

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Section 6.

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No. 9 of 1923.

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Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923.

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Section 16

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No. 13 of 1924.

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Local Government (Temporary Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 1924.

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Section 4

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