Extend the duration of and amend certain A.D. 1923. provisions of the Local Authorities (Financial E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: amendment . 1. 1. Section one of the Local Authorities (Financial Continuance, Provisions) Act, 1921 (which provides for the temporary subject to extension of charges on the Metropolitan Common Poor of 10 & 11 Fund) shall continue in force until the first day of April, Geo. 5. c. 67. 10 nineteen hundred and twenty-four, as if in that section for the words “thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred "and twenty-two," there were substituted the words first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four," subject as respects the half year current on the said 15 thirty-first day of December and any subsequent half year ending before the said first day of April to the following modifications:-- 20 66 (a) The Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1870, as amended by subsection (1) of the said section Provisions). A.D. 1923. (b) For subsection (2) of the said section one the following subsection shall be substituted: periods mentioned in 11 & 12 "(2) There shall be included amongst the expenses to be repaid out of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund the expenses (other than 5 administrative expenses) incurred in respect of outdoor relief to an amount not exceeding ninepence for each person in respect of whom outdoor relief is granted for each day for which such relief is granted in respect of him." 10 Extension of 2. The following provisions of the Local Authorities (Financial Provisions) Act, 1921, shall have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect as if for the Geo. 5. c. 67, references therein to the first day of April, nineteen ss. 3 (3) and hundred and twenty-three, there were substituted refer- 15 ences to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four; that is to say : 6. Continuance, subject to amendment of 11 & 12 (a) the proviso to subsection (3) of section three (b) Subsection (1) of section six thereof (which (c) Subsection (2) of section six thereof (which sus- 3. The Poor Law Emergency Provisions (Scotland) Act, 1921, shall continue in force until the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, as if in subGeo. 5. c. 64. section (4) of section three of that Act for the words 40 "until the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, or until such later date or dates (if any) not being more than one year thereafter as the Board may fix, and the Board may fix different dates for 66 66 Provisions). "different provisions of this Act" there were substituted A.D. 1923 (a) A parish council may make arrangements with (b) Subsection (1) of section two of the said Act 66 Subsection (2) of section one of the said Act shall 66 pro A.D. 1923. Short titlo 4. This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities and extent. (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923, and shall not apply to Northern Ireland. Provisions). A BILL [AS AMENDED BY STANDING To extend the duration of and amend Act, 1921. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 17 April 1923. To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh. MEMORANDUM. This Bill substitutes a system of granting general powers, subject, in certain matters, to specific central regulation and control, to the larger local authorities for the present system of giving them specific powers for particular purposes. Clause 1 enables the councils of counties, the larger boroughs and urban districts to acquire land, and do everything which a company, acting under the Companies Act, 1908, might lawfully do. Clause 2 specifies the procedure by which the powers set forth in clause 1 may be enacted. Clause 3 deals with borrowing powers and the sanction of the Board of Trade to loans, and compels a council to obtain the consent of Parliament through a Board of Trade Provisional Order when the proposed loan exceeds one quarter of the annual rateable value of the rated property in the council's area. By clause 4 the Board of Trade may authorise a council to exercise its powers under this Act outside its own area when this is deemed desirable. Clause 5 enables councils to combine in an undertaking. By clause 6 a council is restrained from selling or leasing an undertaking for a longer period than seven years, unless it has obtained the sanction of the Board of Trade. By clause 7 smaller district councils and parish councils may exercise powers, but only with the Board of Trade's consent and under conditions to be prescribed by them. Clause 8 requires every council to place the net profits of their undertakings in a common fund, which fund may not be used for the reduction of rates. Nothing in the Bill interferes with the existing powers of councils conferred upon them by public or private statute, Provisional Order, or common law. |