Vocational Education (Grants For Annual Schemes of Committees) Regulations, 1996.

• Statutory Instrument No.: 428/1996
• Date: 31 December 1996

S.I. No. 428 of 1996.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (GRANTS FOR ANNUAL SCHEMES OF COMMITTEES) REGULATIONS, 1996.

I, Niamh Bhreathnach, Minister for Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 53 of the Vocational Education Act, 1930 (No. 29 of 1930), hereby, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, make the following Regulations :— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Vocational Education (Grants for Annual Schemes of Committees) Regulations, 1996. 2. In these Regulations:—

"the Act" means the Vocational Education Act, 1930 (No. 29 of 1930) ;

"the Minister" means the Minister for Education;

"committee" means a vocational education committee;

"the Dublin City Vocational Education Area" means the vocational education area which is the county borough of Dublin;

"the Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Area" means the vocational education area which up to 31st December, 1993 was the borough of Dun Laoghaire. 3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations. 4. Where in the financial year commencing on the 1st day of January, 1996, the annual local contribution paid by a rating authority to a committee exceeds the minimum annual liability of such rating authority in respect of such committee by any sum (in these Regulations referred to as "the contribution excess"), the Minister may, in that financial year, make to such committee under section 53 of the Act a grant (to be called and known as an additional grant) of —

(a) if such committee is the committee for a borough Vocational Education Area (other than the Dublin City Vocational Education Area), or for an urban district Vocational Education Area (other than the Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Area), an amount equal to four times the contribution excess, or

(b) if such committee is the committee for the Dublin City Vocational Education Area, or for the Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Area, an amount equal to twice the contribution excess, or

(c) if such committee is the committee for a county vocational education area, an amount equal to the contribution excess. 5. In respect of the financial year commencing on the 1st day of January, 1996, the Minister, in addition to the additional grant, may make under section 53 of the Act —

(1) a grant to the City of Cork Vocational Education Committee of an amount not exceeding £8,845,618.80

(2) a grant to the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee of an amount not exceeding £30,895,906.69

(3) a grant to the City of Limerick Vocational Education Committee of an amount not exceeding £5,099,045.20

(4) a grant to the City of Waterford Vocational Education Committee of an amount not exceeding £2,817,338.90

(5) a grant to the Town of Bray Vocational Education Committee of an amount not exceeding £2,488,353.89

(6) a grant to the Town of Drogheda Vocational Education Committee of an amount not exceeding £3,132,001.31

(7) a grant to the Dun...