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440 those Acts; and such investment may be made either unconditionally or subject to any conditions to be specified by the Board as to the time, portion of the district, or manner, during at and in which such powers, rights, duties, liabilities, capacities, and obligations are to be exercised and attach: Provided that an order of the Local Government Board made on the application of persons rated to the relief of the poor in any contributory place shall not invest the rural authority with any new powers beyond the limits of such contributory place.

2. Any sanitary authority may with the consent of the sanitary authority of any adjoining district, execute and do in such adjoining districts, and to district all or any of such works and things as they may execute combine for and do within their own district, and on such terms as to payment or otherwise as may be agreed on between them and the sanitary authority of the adjoining district, or between them and any person with the consent of such last-mentioned sanitary authority, and may with the like consent supply and sell water to any person in such adjoining district, and any two or more sanitary authorities may combine together for the purpose of executing and maintaining any works that may be for the benefit of their respective districts or any part thereof. All moneys which any sanitary authority may agree to contribute for defraying expenses incurred under this section shall be deemed to be expenses incurred by them in the execution of works within their district.

3. An urban authority may divide their district or any street therein into parts for all or any of the purposes of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1890, and may abolish or alter any on part of such divisions, and may make a separate assessment on any such part for all off the purposes for which the same is formed; and every such part, so far as relates to the purposes in respect of which such separate assessment is made, shall be exempt from any other assessment under the said Acts: Provided that if any expenses are incurred or to be incurred in respect of two or more parts in common the same shall be apportioned between them in a fair and equitable manner.

4. Whenever a rural authority have incurred or become liable to any expenses which by the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1890, are, or by such authority may be declared to be, private improvement expenses, such authority may make and levy a private improvement rate in the same manner as private improvement rates may be made and levied by an urban authority; and all the provisions of the said Acts applicable to private improvement rates leviable by an urban authority shall apply accordingly to any private improvement rate leviable by a rural authority.

5.—(1.) Where a sanitary authority under the provisions of the principal Act supply water in any urban district or in any contributory place, and an application is made to them by any ten persons rated to the relief of the poor in such urban district, or by any five persons so rated in such contributory place, to charge water rates or water rents in respect of the water so supplied, it shall be incumbent upon the authority to exercise the powers given