I move amendment No. 1:—
To delete sub-section (2) and to insert in lieu thereof the following sub-section:—
(2) The expenses incurred under this section in relation to a civic improvement scheme shall—
(a) if incurred by a vocational education committee or a committee of agriculture, be defrayed out of the voluntary civic improvement fund established thereunder,
(b) if incurred by any other local authority, be defrayed either—
(i) out of such voluntary civic improvement fund, or
(ii) (I) in the case of the corporation of a county borough or the Borough of Dún Laoghaire, out of the municipal fund,
(II) in the case of the council of a county, by means of the poor rate as a charge on the county health district of that county,
(III) in the case of the corporation of a borough (not being a county borough or the Borough of Dún Laoghaire), by means of the borough rate,
(IV) in the case of the council of an urban district or the commissioners of a town, by means of the town rate.
Section 4 as drafted provides that the cost of advertisements should be charged against the civic improvement fund. On reconsideration, it is felt that it might be advisable to allow local authorities, such of them as have rate-raising powers, to defray the cost of advertisements out of the rates if they so desire. Vocational education committees and county committees of agriculture have not rate-raising powers and in their case the charge must necessarily fall on the civic improvement fund.