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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 16



16.(1) Where a [district council] acquire under any enactment any land with
the approval of the Ministry for the purpose of a public park, open space,
pleasure ground, recreation ground or public walk the Ministry with the
approval of the Ministry of Finance may, subject to such conditions as it
thinks fit, pay to the [district council] a grant not exceeding seventy-five
per cent. of the expenditure which the Ministry is satisfied was reasonably
and properly incurred by the [council] in acquiring the land or any part
thereof.

(2) Where, with the approval of the Ministry, a [district council] acting in
pursuance of any statutory power exercisable by them in that behalf
appropriate, for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1), any land
vested in them, the Ministry with the approval of the Ministry of Finance may,
subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, pay to the [district council] a
grant of such amount as the Ministry considers proper, having regard to all
the circumstances, but the amount of any such grant shall not exceed the
amount of grant which the Ministry would have had power to pay under
subsection (1) if the [council] had acquired the land on the date on which
they appropriated it.

(3) A grant shall not be paid under this section in respect of any expenditure
in respect of which a grant is paid by the Ministry of Education under
section 2 of the Youth Welfare, Physical Training and Recreation Act (Northern
Ireland) 1962.

S.17 rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/285

Interpretation.



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