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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1898 - SECT 36

Powers of district council as to recreation ground and public walks.

36.(1) [A] district council ... may

(a)acquire, purchase, or take on lease, lay out, plant, improve, and maintain
land for a recreation ground or public walk; and

(b)support or contribute to the support of a recreation ground or public walk,
or contribute towards the purchase or cost of the laying out, planting, or
improvement of any recreation ground or public walk, when provided by any
person and permanently dedicated as such; and

(c)make byelaws for the regulation of any such recreation ground or public
walk, and by such byelaws provide for the removal from such recreation ground
or public walk, by any officer of the said council or a constable, of any
person infringing any such byelaw.

(2) The recreation ground or public walk may be either within or without the
district of the council, if it is convenient for the use of the inhabitants of
such district.

Subs.(3) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/285; subs.(4)(5) rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149
sch.9

[(6) A district council may acquire land otherwise than by agreement for the
purposes of this section.][

© 1898 Crown Copyright

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