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DEVELOPMENT OF TOURIST TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1963 - SECT 7



7.(1) The Ministry shall not make a grant under section 6

(a)unless an advisory committe, appointed by the Minister of Commerce to
advise the Ministry on matters relating to the making of grants under that
section, recommend that the Ministry should make the grant; or

(b)where the total cost (as determined by the Ministry) of the works in
respect of which an application for a grant is made is less than the
prescribed amount; or

(c)in respect of any works commenced before [4th October, 1966]; or

(d)in pursuance of an application for a grant received by the Ministry [after
4th October [1971]].

(2) The amount of any grant under section 6 shall not exceed [one-third] of
the cost (as determined by the Ministry) of the works in respect of which it
is made.

(3) The payment of any grant or of any instalment of a grant pursuant to
section 6 shall be subject to such conditions (including conditions requiring
the repayment of grants) as the Ministry, after considering the advice of the
advisory committee appointed under this section, may determine.

(4) Without prejudice to sub-section (3), where the Ministry pays any sum by
way of grant under section 6 in respect of the execution of any works, the
person who receives it or, if he dies, his personal representatives, shall
repay that sum (or such lesser sum as the Ministry, after considering all the
circumstances, may determine) to the Ministry if the relevant premises cease
to be used as an hotel, a guest house or a boarding house, as the case may be,
before the expiration of three years beginning with the date of the completion
of the works in respect of which the grant is made.

(5) Nothing in sub-section (4) shall affect the power of the Ministry to make
a grant under section 6 subject to a condition corresponding to the provisions
of that sub-section except for the substitution of a period longer than three
years for the period of three years mentioned in that sub-section.

(6) Any sum which must be repaid to the Ministry by virtue of any condition
imposed pursuant to sub-section (3), or under sub-section (4), may be
recovered by the Ministry as a civil debt.

(7) In this section "relevant premises" means

(a)where the works (including works of extension) in respect of which a grant
is made under section 6 consist of works in or to existing buildings, those
buildings;

(b)where the works in respect of which a grant is made under section 6 consist
of the construction of new buildings (not being buildings to be used in
conjunction with existing buildings) those new buildings.


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