No. 28/1945:

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (REMISSION OF RATES) ACT, 1945

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Amendment of Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1940.

2 Short title and collective citation.

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND, WITH RETROSPECTIVE EFFECT, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (REMISSION OF RATES) ACT, 1940.

[4th August, 1945.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1.—(1) Subsection (1) of section 1 of the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1940 ( No. 8 of 1940 ), as amended by the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1943 (No, 6 of 1943), is hereby further amended as follows:—

( a ) the reference in the definition of the expression "the prescribed period" to the 31st day of March, 1945, shall be construed as a reference to the 31st day of March, 1946;

( b ) each reference in paragraphs (a) to (f) of the definition of the word "residence" to a series of Acts shall be construed as including a reference to every subsequent Act (whether passed before or after this present Act) amending such series of Acts.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have come into operation upon the coming into operation of the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1940 ( No. 8 of 1940 ).

2.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Act, 1945.

(2) The Local Government (Remission of Rates) Acts, 1940 and 1943, and this Act be cited together as the Local Government (Remission of Rates) Acts, 1940 to 1945.