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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    et &12GE0.6. Local Government CH. 26. a : Act, 1948. | that year as for the year 1948-49; but the Minister shall not use the said power as respects any year unless the effect of the use thereof would be to increase the aggregate of the rateable values credited to all counties and county boroughs in England .and Wales for that year by at least one per cent. | Part I. - —cont. _expenditure for the year in question by the sum of the following amounts, that is to say, the rateable value credited to the county or county borough for that year and the product of a rate of one pound in the pound for the county or county borough for that year. . (2) In this section, the expression “ the relevant local expendi- _ture ’”’ means so much of the total expenditure for the year— (a) in the case of a county, of the council of the county and of the other local authorities in the county ; and (b) in the case of a county borough, of the council of the | county borough, as would have to be met out of rates levied within the county ' or county borough if no Exchequer Grants under this Part of this Act and (so far as any such Grant is relevant to the year in question) no Exchequer Grants payable for any previous year under the Local Government Acts, 1929 to 1946, were payable, and if no grants had been made out of moneys provided by Parliament to local authorities by the Minister by way of special assistance in respect of their financial difficulties arising out of the war. . (3) 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, the amount payable shall be treated for the purposes of sub- section (2) of this section as expenditure of the first-mentioned _ authority. 3 (4) The provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall, as respects the year 1948-49, have effect subject to the special provisions relating to Exchequer Grants for that year contained | hereafter in this Part of this Act. and county borough in England and Wales the sums specified in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, being, in every case sums estimated for the year 1947-48. (2) The Minister shall first estimate— (a) the aggregate of all Exchequer Grants payable under the Local Government Acts, 1929 to 1946, to the council of the county or county borough or, in the case of a county, to any other local authority in the county, less