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AN BILLE UM DHEONTAIS TIONSCAIL (LEASU), 1966 INDUSTRIAL GRANTS (AMENDMENT) BELL, 1966 Mar a ritheadh ag dhd Theach an Oireachtais As passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section 1.

Interpretation.

2.

Time for making of grants for enlargement or adaptation of undertakings.

3.

Amount of grants by An Foras Tionscal.

4.

Industrial estates.

5.

Appointment by Board of staff for industrial estates.

6.

Superannuation of staff appointed under section 5.

7.

Separate accounts.


8.

Separate report.

9.

Grants to secure reduction of factory rents.

10.

Repeals.

11.

Short title and collective citation.

3 AN BELLE UM DHEONTAIS TIONSCAIL (LEASU), 1966 INDUSTRIAL GRANTS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1966 entitled AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE UNDEVELOPED 5 AREAS ACTS, 1952 TO 1963, AND THE INDUSTRIAL GRANTS ACTS, 1959 TO 1964.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS Interpretation.

Interpretation.

1.—In this Act— 1952, No.

1.

1952, No.

1.
“ the Act of 1952 ” means the Undeveloped Areas Act, 1952; 10 11 the Board ” means An Foras Tionscal; “ factory building ” means a building which is used or intended to be used for carrying on an industrial undertaking together with any other building which is subsidiary or ancillary thereto and is used or intended to be used for a purpose connected with the 15 undertaking, including the purpose of an office or staff canteen; “ industrial estate ” means an area of land used mainly for indus­ trial purposes and purposes ancillary or incidental thereto and having on it at least two factory buildings; “ the Minister ” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce.
20 Time for Time for making of grants making of grants for enlargement for enlargement or adaptation of or adaptation of undertakings.

undertakings.

1963, No.

3.

1963, No.

3.

1963, No.

4.

1963, No.

4.

1964, No.

37.

1964, No.

37.
2.—A grant may be made under section 4 of the Undeveloped Areas (Amendment) Act, 1963, after the 31st day of March, 1966, in respect of an enlargement or adaptation that is of the kind referred to in that section and is approved by the Board on or after the 31st day of March, 1966, and before the 31st day of 25 December, 1967, and a grant may be made under section 4 of the Industrial Grants (Amendment) Act, 1963, after the 31st day of March, 1966, in respect of an enlargement or adaptation that is of the kind referred to in that section and is approved by the Board on or after the 31st day of March, 1966, and before the 31st day 3Q of December, 1967, if, in each case, an application for the grant is made to the Board, before the 30th day of September, 1967, and, in case the application is made after the 31st day of March, 1966, the enlargement or adaptation is commenced after the date of the making of the application and, accordingly, “ 31st day of December, 35 1967 ** is hereby substituted for “ 31st day of March, 1966 ” (inserted by the Industrial Grants (Amendment) Act, 1964) in each place where it occurs in subsection (5) of those sections and, “ an application for the grant is made to the Board before the 30th day of September, 1967 and, (notwithstanding anything 40 2 contained in subsection (4) of this section) if the application is made after the 31st day of March, 1966, the enlargement or adapta­ tion is commenced after the date of the making of the applica­ tion ” is hereby inserted at the end of each of those subsections.
5 3.—The aggregate amount of grants made by the Industrial Development Authority under the Industrial Grants Act, 1956, and of grants (other than grants under section 12 of the Act of 1952) made by the Board and the Minister under the Undeveloped Areas Acts, 1952 to 1966, and the Industrial Grants Acts, 1959 to 10 1966, and of payments made by the Board and the Minister on foot of guarantees given by the Board and the Minister under the Industrial Grants Act, 1959, shall not exceed thirty million pounds.
Amount of grant* by An Fora* Tionscal.

1966, No.

48.

1959, No.

26.

4.—(1) The Board may establish, develop, maintain and manage industrial estates and shall have and enjoy all such powers as are 15 necessary for or incidental or relevant to the exercise of the powers Industrial estate*.

aforesaid.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, the Board— 20 '25 (а) shall have and enjoy for the purposes of this section the powers specified in section 5 (1) (i) to (vi) and (viii) of the Act of 1952 that they have and enjoy for the pur­ poses of that section, and subsections (2) to (4) of that section shall apply and have effect in relation to the exercise by the Board of the powers aforesaid for the purposes of this section as they apply in relation to such exercise for the purposes of that section, (б) may erect, alter or adapt, or procure the erection, altera­ tion or adaptation, of factory buildings, (c) may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of factory buildings, 30 and (d) may provide, or procure the provision of, lighting, heat­ ing, power, water, drainage and other services and facilities in factory buildings.
5.—(1) The Board may appoint such number of persons as they 25 may consider necessary to be officers and servants of the Board to assist them in establishing, developing, maintaining and managing industrial estates under this Act.

Appointment by Board of staff for industrial estates.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, officers and servants appointed under this section shall hold office on such 40 terms and subject to such conditions and receive such remunera­ tion as the Board may determine.

(3) The rates of remuneration of and the amount of any allow­ ance for expenses given to officers or servants appointed under this section shall be subject to the approval of the Minister given 45 with the consent of the Minister for Finance.
(4) The other terms and conditions of employment of a person who is appointed under this section to be a chief executive shall be subject to the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance.

3 Superannuation of staff appointed under section 6.
6.—(1) The Board may prepare and submit to the Minister a contributory scheme or schemes for the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances on retirement to or in respect of such officers and servants appointed under section 5 of this Act 5 as they may think fit.
(2) Every such scheme shall fix the time and conditions of retire­ ment for all persons to or in respect of whom pensions, gratuities or allowances on retirement are payable under the scheme, and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons.

10 (3) The Board may at any time prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme amending a scheme previously submitted and approved of under this section.
(4) A scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved of by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister 15 for Finance, be carried out by the Board in accordance with its terms.

(5) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any pension, gratuity or allowance payable in pursuance of a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to 20 the Minister who shall refer it to the Minister for Finance, whose decision shall be final.
(6) Every scheme submitted and approved of under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved of and if either House, within the next twenty- 25 one days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the scheme, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of any­ thing previously done thereunder.
7.—The accounts which the Board are required by paragraph 10 30 of the First Schedule to the Act of 1952 to keep shall include separate accounts of moneys received and expended by them under sections 4 to 6 of this Act.

8.—The report which the Board are required by paragraph 11 of the First Schedule to the Act of 1952 to submit to the Minister 35 shall include a separate report of their activities under sections 4 to 6 of this Act.
9.—(1) Where a factory building is situate in an area which, in the opinion of the Board, is, or is intended to be an industrial estate (other than an industrial estate established by the Board) 40 and the building is used or intended to be used by a person for the purpose of or in connection with the carrying on of an indus­ trial undertaking and is held by the person under a lease or other letting subject to a rent or other payment, the Board may make grants, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as they 45 think proper to impose, to the person entitled to the rent or other payment to enable him to reduce such rent or payment.
(2) A grant under this section in relation to a building shall not exceed the amount of the grant which would be payable under section 2 (1) (i) of the Industrial Grants Act, 1959, or section 5 50 of the Act of 1952, as the case may be, in respect of the industrial undertaking carried on in the building if a grant was not paid under this section in respect thereof.

4 Separate accounts.

Separate report.

Grants to secure reduction of factory rents.

1959, No.

4.
1959, No.

4.

10.—Section 7 (1) of the Industrial Grants (Amendment) Act, 1963, and section 2 of the Industrial Grants (Amendment) Act, 1964, are hereby repealed.

Kepeals.

1963, No.

4.

1964, No.

37.

11.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Grants 5 (Amendment) Act, 1966.

Short title and collective citation.


(2) The Undeveloped Areas Acts, 1952 to 1964, and this Act (in so far as it amends those Acts) may be cited together as the Undeveloped Areas Acts, 1952 to 1966, and the Industrial Grants Acts, 1959 to 1964, and this Act (in so far as it amends those Acts) 10 may be cited together as the Industrial Grants Acts, 1959 to 1966.
5 AN BILLE UM DHEONTAIS TIONSCAIL (LEASU), 1966 INDUSTRIAL GRANTS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1966 BILLE dd ngairtear BILL entitled Acht do leasu agus do leathnu na nAchtanna um Limisteir Neamhfhorbartha, 1952 go 1963, agus na nAchtanna um Dheontais Tionscail, 1959 go 1964.

An Act to amend and extend the Undeveloped Areas Acts, 1952 to 1963, and the Industrial Grants Acts, 1959 to 1964.
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