Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., cap. 38) : regulations.

  • Great Britain. Scottish Office.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., cap. 38) : regulations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    case of dispute by the Board, shall be payable by the District Board to the Parish Council or School Board by means of periodical instalments as hereinafter provided. (6) All provisional estimates intimated or transmitted to a District Board or Parish Council or School Board, under this regulation, shall be certified by the Chairman or other member of the transmitting authority and countersigned by the officer responsible for the accounts of such authority. 4. —{a) For the purpose of the payments to be made to any District Board or Parish Council or School Board, in respect of the sums ascertained to be payable under the aforesaid pro- visional estimates, the financial year shall be divided into four quarters ending respectively on 15th August, 15th November, 15th February, and 15th May, and one-fourth of the net amount due in respect of such sums, as between each District Board and each Parish Council or School Board, shall be paid quarterly in advance to the District Board or Parish Council or School Board as the case may be within 14 days of notice calling for payment (6) If, owing to a change in the approved weekly rate, or in the number of pauper lunatics or defectives chargeable, subsequent to the preparation of the provisional estimate, or owing to some other cause, the sums ascertained to be payable under the afore- said provisional estimates are found in any case to exceed or fall short of the sums properly payable, the quarterly payments shall be adjusted to meet the altered circumstances, and any balance remaining’ due at the close of the financial year shall be paid to the District Board or Parish Council or School Board entitled thereto as soon after that date as practicable. (c) Where a Parish Council is the District Board this regula- tion shall only apply in so far as there shall be an adjustment between the accounts of the Parish Council as such and their accounts as District Board at 15th November and 15th May in each financial year. 5. Any local authority (being a District Board or a Parish Council OP a School Board) shall immediately on the receipt in any financial year of a Government grant in aid of the mainten- ance of pauper lunatics or defectives forthwith pay over one-half of the amount to any other local authority or authorities jointly liable with it for such maintenance. 6. Each Parish Council or School Board shall pay over at the close of each quarter to the District Board jointly liable for the maintenance of pauper lunatics or defectives belonging to the parish or School Board one-half of all contributions received from private sources during the quarter in aid of such maintenance. 7. —(a) A Parish Council shall pay quarterly and in advance to the Treasurer of the poor house a quarter of the annual cost of the maintenance of any lunatic chargeable to them who is resi- dent in the lunatic wards of such poor house: Provided that where a Parish Council, which is also a District Board, owns a poor house with lunatic wards this Regulation shall only apply in so far as there shall be an adjustment of payments as between