Electricity (Supply) Act 1927
Expenses of local authorities.
71.—(1) Any expenses incurred under this Act by a local authority which is an authorised undertaker and not otherwise provided for may, with the consent of the Board given after consultation with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, be defrayed—
(a) in the case of an urban sanitary authority out of the rate applicable to the general purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts or any other fund or rate applicable to lighting under any Local Act, and
(b) in the case of a rural district council, board of public health, or board of health and public assistance as special expenses under the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 and shall be deemed to be special expenses within the meaning of section 232 of the said Act.
(2) F27[…]
(3) F27[…]
Annotations
Amendments:
F27
Repealed (2.12.1964) by Local Government (Repeal of Enactments) Act 1964 (33/1964), s. 1 and sch., commenced on enactment.
Modifications (not altering text):
C75
Functions transferred and references to "sanitary authorities" construed (1.01.2014) by Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 (50/2013), s. 7(3), (4), S.I. No. 575 of 2013.
Transfer of functions from water service authorities to Irish Water
7. ...
(3) All functions of sanitary authorities deemed to be functions of a water services authority under section 39 of the Act of 2007 shall, on the transfer day, be transferred to Irish Water.
(4) References to a sanitary authority in any enactment or instrument under any enactment shall, on and after the transfer day, in so far as they relate to any function transferred by subsection (3), be construed as references to Irish Water.