Part III Hill Land
Special measures for certain areas
47 Boards’ powers of giving financial assistance.
1
In the discharge of their functions a Rural Development Board may, in accordance with arrangements approved by the appropriate Minister and the Treasury, give financial assistance, whether by way of grant or loan or partly grant and partly loan, towards the undertaking of measures to implement any programme drawn up under section 46 of this Act, and in particular (subject to its being so aproved)—
a
financial assistance for providing or improving communications and public services in the Board’s area,
b
financial assistance towards expenditure incurred in installing or connecting a supply of electricity, gas or water to a dwelling-house or other premises used in connection with agriculture or forestry or for the improvement of accommodation on such premises for tourists, being expenditure incurred by an owner or occupier of the premises,
c
financial assistance towards expenditure incurred in providing or improving a site on an agricultural or forestry unit for tourists’ caravans or as a tourists’ camping site, being expenditure incurred by the occupier of the agricultural or forestry unit.
2
On making a grant or loan under the foregoing subsection the Board may impose such conditions as they think fit, including, in the case of a grant, conditions for repayment in specified circumstances.