No. 18/1965:

GAELTACHT INDUSTRIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1965

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Definitions.

2 Amendment of section 1 of Principal Act.

3 Amendment of section 4 of Principal Act.

4 Amendment of section 5 of Principal Act.

5 Amendment of section 14 of Principal Act.

6 Amendment of section 19 of Principal Act.

7 Amendment of section 26 of Principal Act.

8 Short title, collective citation and construction.

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE GAELTACHT INDUSTRIES ACT, 1957 .

[20th July, 1965.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1.—In this Act—

"the Board" means Gaeltarra Éireann;

"the Principal Act" means the Gaeltacht Industries Act, 1957 .

2.—Section 1 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of "the Gaeltacht" of the following definition:

"'the Gaeltacht' means the areas for the time being determined to be Gaeltacht areas by order under section 2 of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1956 ;".

3.—Section 4 of the Principal Act (which relates to the powers and functions of the Board) is hereby amended by the insertion in subsection, (4) after paragraph,(b) of the following:

"( bi ) with the consent of the Minister given after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce—

(A) to take part with other persons in the formation of a body corporate or in a partnership or otherwise,

(B) to form, or to purchase or take or sell shares in, a body corporate, and

(C) to make, on such terms, if any, as it thinks proper, a grant to a body corporate in which it holds shares,

for the purpose of establishing, developing or maintaining industries and productive schemes of employment in the Gaeltacht,

( bii ) to make, at its discretion and on such terms, if any, as it thinks proper, grants for the purpose of assisting persons to establish, develop or maintain in the Gaeltacht minor productive projects, provided that no such grant shall exceed two thousand pounds and that no such grant shall be made in respect of a project if a grant from An Foras Tionscal has been made in respect of that project,".

4.—Section 5 of the Principal Act (which relates to the constitution of the Board) is hereby amended by the substitution in subsection (1) of "not more than seven members" for "five members".

5.—Section 14 of the Principal Act (which provides for meetings and procedure of the Board) is hereby amended by the insertion in subsection (2) after "three" of "(where the Board consists of not more than five members) or four (where the Board consists of six or seven members)".

6.—Section 19 of the Principal Act (which provides for the transfer to the Board of certain assets held for the rural industries) is hereby amended by the deletion in subsection (3) of the words from "and such sum" to the end of that subsection.

7.—Section 26 of the Principal Act (which provides for repayable advances to the Board out of the Central Fund) is hereby amended—

(i) by the substitution in subsection (1) of "two million pounds" for "five hundred thousand pounds", and

(ii) by the insertion in subsection (2) after "this Act" of the following:

";provided, however,—

( a ) that any sum so advanced before the 1st day of April, 1965, shall be deemed to have ceased on that date to be so repayable, and

( b ) that any sum so advanced after the 1st day of April, 1965, shall not be so repayable (and sections 28 and 29 of this Act shall not apply in relation to it) until such date as the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister, shall determine".

8.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Gaeltacht Industries (Amendment) Act, 1965 .

(2) The Principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Gaeltacht Industries Acts, 1957 and 1965, and shall be construed together as one Act.