No. 29/1974:

RATES ON AGRICULTURAL LAND (RELIEF) ACT, 1974

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Amendment of section 1 of Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1962.

2 Short title.

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE RATES ON AGRICULTURAL LAND (RELIEF) ACTS, 1939 TO 1972.

[23rd December, 1974]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

1.—Subsection (1) of section 1 of the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1962 , as amended by section 2 of the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1964 , section 2 of the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1967 , section 2 of the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1972 , and section 4 of the Exchequer and Local Financial Years Act, 1974 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the " 31st day of December, 1974, and the 31st day of December, 1975, and shall so have effect as if the making of supplementary allowances under section 6 of the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1946 , were not prohibited "for all the words after" the 31st day of March, 1974," and accordingly, the said subsection (1) shall have effect as set out in the Table to this section.

(2) Accordingly "twenty-two" is hereby substituted for " twenty-one" where the latter word occurs in section 1 of the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1953 , in the reference to the local financial year ending on the 31st day of March, 1954, and the twenty-one following local financial years.

TABLE

The Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1953 , shall have effect in relation to the local financial years ending on the 31st day of March, 1963, the 31st day of March, 1964, the 31st day of March, 1965, the 31st day of March, 1966, the 31st day of March, 1967, the 31st day of March, 1968, the 3 1st day of March, 1969 the 31st day of March, 1970, the 31st day of March, 1971, the 31st day of March, 1972, the 31st day of March, 1973, the 31st day of March, 1974, the 31st day of December, 1974 and the 31st day of December, 1975, and shall so have effect as if the making of supplementary allowances under section 6 of the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1946 , were not prohibited.

2.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1974 .

(2) The Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Acts, 1939 to 1972, and this Act may be cited together as the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Acts, 1939 to 1974.