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DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1948 - SECT 1

1.(1) Where it appears to the Ministry of Finance (in this Act referred to as
"the Ministry") after consultation with the appropriate departments that it is
desirable, for the purpose of providing (whether directly or indirectly)
employment in any area, that the provision or improvement of any service to
which this section applies and for which adequate provision has not been made
in that area should be specially assisted or accelerated, the Ministry, or any
other Government department which the Ministry may designate for the purpose,
may either itself provide or improve, or may make grants towards the cost of
providing or improving, that service in such manner and subject to such
conditions as the Ministry may think expedient for the purposes of this
section.

For the purposes of this sub-section the expression "appropriate departments"
means, in relation to any service to which this section applies, the Ministry
of Labour and National Insurance and any such other Government department as
appears to the Ministry to be concerned with the administration of that
service.

(2) The services to which this section applies are all services (including
facilities or amenities) which the Ministry is satisfied are necessary in the
public interest or are desirable either for the development of any area or for
the improvement of any service provided by a local or public authority in the
exercise of any function arising under or by virtue of the provisions of any
enactment.

(3) Subject to the provisions of section seven of this Act and notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in any other enactment, the powers conferred by this
section on the Ministry or any other Government department to make grants in
respect of any service to which this section applies shall be exercisable in
addition to any other power conferred by any other enactment to make grants in
respect of that service.

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