Local government act, 1948 : 11 & 12 Geo. 6. Ch. 26.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
[1948?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Local government act, 1948 : 11 & 12 Geo. 6. Ch. 26. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cape & 12 GEO. 6. ~ Local Government CH. 26. Act, 1948. third fixed grant period had been terminated thereby Part I, at the end of March nineteen hundred and forty- | _—cont. seven ; and subsection had been payable under section one hun- dred and section one hundred and one of the Education Act, 1944, in lieu of the sums mentioned in paragraph (1) the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-seven had been both the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of the National Health Service Act, 1946, and the day appointed for the discontinuance of the functions falling to be dis- continued by virtue of any Act of the present Session terminating the existing poor law, and the expendi- ture of the council of the county or county borough and, in the case of a county, of all other local authori- ties in the county, had been diminished accordingly. Where, by virtue of a precept or other instrument, not being a precept or instrument issued by a county council, any sum falls to be paid by a local authority to any other authority in respect of the expenditure of that other authority in providing any services or performing any functions, the amount payable shall be treated for the purposes of this subsection as expenditure of the first- mentioned authority incurred by them in providing those services or performing those functions. (4) If for any county or county borough the total of the sums estimated by the Minister under subsection (2) of this section exceeds the total of the sums so estimated under subsection (3) thereof, there shall be payable out of moneys provided by Parlia- ment to the council of the county or county borough grants for the year 1948-49 and each of the four following years. (5) The amount of the grant for the year 1948-49 shall be _ the amount of the said excess and the amounts of the grants for the four following years shall be respectively four-fifths, three-fifths, two-fifths and one-fifth of the amount of the said excess. (6) Grants under this section are in the subsequent provisions of this Part of this Act referred to as “‘ Exchequer Transitional Grants’. Y 6.—(1) The Minister may, subject to the provisions of this Power to section, reduce any Exchequer Equalisation Grant or Exchequer pine _ Transitional Grant payable to a council by such amount as he , ee thinks just, 1f— } (a) he is satisfied, either upon representations made to him or without any such representations, that the council have failed to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of 5 ue é