No. 181/1934:

LAND BOND ORDER, 1934.

LAND BOND ORDER, 1934.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Land Bond Act, 1934 (No. 11 of 1934), that, for the purposes therein mentioned, the Minister for Finance may, from time to time as occasion requires but subject to the provisions of that Act, by order create a series of land bonds of such total amount and such denominations (not less in any case than one pound) and bearing interest at such rate (not less than three nor more than four per cent. per annum) and subject to such conditions in relation to registration or inscription as the said Minister shall think proper and shall specify in such Order ;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Finance in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 4 of the Land Bond Act, 1934 (No. 11 of 1934), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Land Bond Order, 1934.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. A series of land bonds is hereby created of the total amount of one million pounds to be known as four per cent. land bonds, and in this Order the expression " the land bonds " means land bonds of such series.

4. The denominations in which the land bonds shall be issued shall be one pound, ten pounds, and one hundred pounds, and no other denominations.

5. The issue of the land bonds shall be for the purpose of making advances and paying purchase moneys the amounts of which are agreed or fixed in the period between the date of the passing of the Land Bond Act, 1934 , and the 31st day of December, 1935, inclusive of both dates, except advances which are required by the Land Bond Act, 1933 (No. 33 of 1933), to be made by means of an issue of new land bonds under that Act.

6. The land bonds shall in accordance with sub-section (2) of Section 6 of the Land Bond Act, 1934 , bear interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum.

7.—(1) The land bonds shall when issued be inscribed in the books of the National City Bank Limited—

(a) if such land bonds are issued for the purposes of the Costs Fund, in the name of the Irish Land Commission and to the account of the Costs Fund, or

(b) if such land bonds are issued for any other purpose, in the name of the Irish Land Commission and to the account of the estate in respect of which such land bonds are issued.

(2) Any of the land bonds inscribed in the books of the National City Bank Limited and subsequently allocated by the Court of the Irish Land Commission shall, after such allocation, be registered in the names of the persons for the time being entitled to such land bonds.

8. For the purpose of the redemption of the land bonds there shall be set aside in the Land Bond Fund at the close of every half-year ending on the 1st day of May, or the 1st day of November, until all the land bonds have been redeemed, the following sums, that is to say :—

(a) a sum equivalent to two and three-eighths per cent. on all sums advanced or paid by the issue of the land bonds up to the close of the previous half-year and not certified by the Minister for Finance to have been repaid, together with, where such bonds were issued on the last day of the previous half-year, a sum calculated at the rate of four and three-quarters per cent. per annum for the period from the close of the half-year up to the next following dividend day, and

(b) a sum calculated at the rate of four and three-quarters per cent. per annum on all sums advanced or paid by the issue of the land bonds since the beginning of such half-year and not certified by the Minister for Finance to have been repaid, such sum being so calculated for the period from the date of issue of the bonds up to the dividend day next after the end of such half-year, and

(c) all sums paid during such half-year by tenant-purchasers in redemption of purchase annuities payable in respect of advances made by means of an issue of the land bonds, and

(d) every sum paid during such half-year in cash by a purchaser on the sale to him by the Land Commission of any land vested in them under the Land Act, 1923 , as amended or extended by any subsequent enactment, the purchase money whereof was paid by means of an issue of the land bonds, and

(e) all sums paid into the Land Bond Fund during such half-year by the Land Commission under the Land Act, 1931 (No. 11 of 1931), for the redemption of the land bonds.

The sums so set aside at the close of any half-year shall be subject to the following deductions, that is to say :—

(f) the amount of the interest payable on the next dividend day in respect of all the land bonds issued and not redeemed up to the end of such half-year, and

(g) the amount, if any, required for the payment off of all the land bonds which were transferred during that half-year by order of the Judicial Commissioner in redemption of land purchase annuities, and

(h) the amount of any advance made from the Guarantee Fund during such half-year for payment of interest on the land bonds issued on or after the last day of the previous half-year and before the dividend day occurring in the first-mentioned half-year for the period between such issue and such dividend day.

The sum required for the redemption of the land bonds on any yearly or half-yearly drawing shall be the total amount of all sums set aside under this clause of this Order (less by the deductions aforesaid) since the next previous drawing, together with all accretions by way of interest from temporary investment.

9. Purchase annuities and other annual sums payable for the repayment of purchase money paid or advances made by means of an issue of the land bonds shall be calculated at the rate of four and three-quarters per cent. per annum on the amount of the purchase money so paid or the advance so made.

10. Interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum and sinking fund at the rate of three-quarters of one per cent. per annum shall be paid in half-yearly instalments on the 21st day of June and the 22nd day of December in each year by the Land Commission to the Land Bond Fund on all sums advanced or paid by an issue of the land bonds, and not certified by the Minister for Finance to have been repaid, until all such sums have been repaid.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for

Finance, this 29th day of June, 1934.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,

Secretary.