15/12/1934:

THE SMALL DWELLINGS (RATES OF INTEREST ON ADVANCES) ORDER, 1934.

THE SMALL DWELLINGS (RATES OF INTEREST ON ADVANCES) ORDER, 1934.

No. 125,537/1934.

WHEREAS by section 5 of the Housing Act, 1921, as adapted by subsequent enactments, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health is empowered with the approval of the Minister for Finance, from time to time by order to fix the rate of interest on advances under section 1 of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899, as amended by the Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919, and the Housing Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931, and to fix different rates of interest for different purposes and in different cases:

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 5 of the Housing Act, 1921, as adapted as aforesaid, does by this his Order, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, order and direct as follows, that is to say:--

1. This Order may be cited as the Small Dwellings (Rates of Interest on Advances) Order, 1934.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , shall apply for the purpose of the interpretation of this Order in the same manner in which it applies for the purpose of the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. This Order shall not apply to any of the local authorities mentioned in the Schedule to this Order, but shall apply to every other local authority. ,

4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Order heretofore made under the said section 5 of the Housing Act, 1921, the rate of interest on advances made by any local authority to which this Order applies, subsequent to the date of this Order, under section 1 of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899, as amended as aforesaid, is hereby fixed at the rate of five and one quarter per centum per annum.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for

Local Government and Public Health, this

Fifteenth day of December, One Thousand

Nine Hundred and Thirty-four.

(Sighnithe) SEÁN T. O CEALLAIGH,

Minister for Local Government

and Public Health.

I approve of this Order.

(Signed) SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Finance.

SCHEDULE.

Local Authorities to which the foregoing Order does not apply.

The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin;

The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork; The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Clonmel; The Corporation of Dun Laoghaire;

The Councils of the Administrative Counties of--Galway, Kildare, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Roscommon, Tipperary (North Riding), and Wexford;

The Councils of the Urban, Districts of--Ballina, Dundalk, Howth, and Kilrush.