No. 316/1946:

LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS) ORDER, 1946.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS) ORDER, 1946.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1946 .

The Minister for Local Government and Public Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 and sub-sections (7) and (8) of section 67 of the Local Government Act, 1946 , hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Allowances to Members) Order, 1946.

2. (1) The allowance to be paid by a local authority to a member of such authority pursuant to sub-section (7) of section 67 of the Local Government Act, 1946 , in respect of a period during which such member is obliged by reason of attending a meeting of such authority to remain away from his home shall be

(a) four shillings and sixpence where such period is a continuous period of less than seven hours and more than three hours, and

(b) seven shillings where such period is a continuous period of not less than seven hours.

(2) Where, during the same period, a person attends meetings of more than one local authority, such person shall be paid one such allowance only in respect of the said period.

3. Before a local authority pays any such allowance to a member, such member shall furnish to the local authority in writing a claim for the said allowance giving particulars of the following matters :—

(a) the date and place of the meeting or meetings attended by the member, and

(b) the precise hours at which the member left home to attend the meeting and at which he returned to his home.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this twenty-second day of August, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-six.

(Signed) TOMÁS MAC ARDGHAIL,

An Assistant Secretary of the Department of Local Government and Public Health authorised by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health to authenticate the Seal of the said Minister.