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Extend the duration of and

amend certain A.D. 1923.

provisions of the Local Authorities (Financial
Provisions) Act, 1921, and the Poor Law
Emergency Provisions (Scotland) Act, 1921.

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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

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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:--

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(a) The Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1870,

as amended by subsection (1) of the said section
one shall have effect as if a farm colony the
persons in which are maintained by boards of
guardians were an asylum provided under the
Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867.

Provisions).

A.D. 1923. (b) For subsection (2) of the said section one the following subsection shall be substituted:

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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."

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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 :

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Continuance, subject to amendment of 11 & 12

(a) the proviso to subsection (3) of section three
thereof (which enables the Minister of Health
in certain circumstances to extend the time 20
within which sums borrowed under that section
are to be repaid if borrowed before the first
day of April first mentioned);

(b) Subsection (1) of section six thereof (which
provides that money borrowed by a local 25
authority before the first-mentioned first day
of April for certain purposes is not to be
reckoned as part of the debt of the local
authority for the purposes of any enactment
limiting the powers of borrowing by that 30
authority);

(c) Subsection (2) of section six thereof (which sus-
pends until the first mentioned first day of April
the operation of subsection (3) of section two
hundred and thirty-four of the Public Health 35
Act, 1875).

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

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Provisions).

"different provisions of this Act" there were substituted A.D. 1923
the words until the fifteenth day of May, nineteen
"hundred and twenty-four," subject, however, to the
following modifications:

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(a) A parish council may make arrangements with
any local authority whereby any destitute able-
bodied person out of employment and applying
for relief may be employed by the local authority
on any work of public utility instituted for the
relief of distress due to unemployment, and where
the arrangements so provide, the council may
contribute towards the expenditure incurred by
the local authority on such work such sum as the
council may determine, not exceeding the sum
which but for the employment would have been
paid to the person so employed by way of relief
under section one of the said Act, and the pro-
visions of the said section shall apply to any
payment so made as if it were relief given
thereunder. The provisions of this paragraph
shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in
the case where a parish council itself institutes
any work of public utility for the relief of
distress due to unemployment in like manner as
it applies in the case where arrangements are
made with another local authority. Provided
that no such contribution shall be made by a
parish council to the expenditure incurred by a
local authority on any work of public utility as
aforesaid, unless such work is carried out by the
local authority by means of labour employed
directly by the authority. For the purpose of
this paragraph "local authority means any
body to whom the Local Taxation Returns
(Scotland) Act, 1881, applies; and

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(b) Subsection (1) of section two of the said Act
(which relates to the borrowing powers of parish
councils in connection with relief to destitute
able-bodied persons out of employment) shall
have effect as if "ten years " and "fifteen years
were therein substituted for "five years and
ten years" respectively; and

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Subsection (2) of section one of the said Act shall
be read and have effect as if the words

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4. This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities

and extent. (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923, and shall not apply to Northern Ireland.

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Provisions).

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BILL

[AS AMENDED BY STANDING
COMMITTEE A]

To extend the duration of and amend
certain provisions of the Local
Authorities (Financial Provisions)
Law
Act, 1921, and the Poor
Emergency Provisions (Scotland)

Act, 1921.

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Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 17 April 1923.

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To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from
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Street, Londor, S.W. 1; 37, Peter Street, Manchester;

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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.

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