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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    Act, 1948. and any sum so recoverable shall be deemed to be expenditure Parr II. on functions for which small burghs are included within the —cont. county. Miscellaneous. 26. No provision shall be made for any payment to a local Discontinuance authority under subsection (1) of section one hundred and ° burden forty-two of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947, in ee respect of any increase of burden due to an alteration of boundary. boundaries or other change taking place after the end of the he 11 Geo. 6. year 1947-48. 27.—(1) This section shall have effect as respects the follow- Continuation of ing enactments (which contain financial provisions relating to thd ge the third fixed grant period), that is to say section three of the for vertalt Maternity Services (Scotland) Act, 1937 and section two of the Purposes. Cancer Act, 1939, (under which Exchequer grants are pay- : ae hee able in respect of expenditure imposed by those Acts). A (2) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, the third fixed grant period shall not for the pur- poses of either of the said enactments be deemed to have terminated until immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947, and payments shall be made accordingly. (3) If the date on which either of the said enactments ceases to be in force (either by virtue of an Order in Council fixing an appointed day under the National Health Service (Scot- land) Act, 1947, or of any Act of the present Session terminat- ing the existing poor law) is a date before the end of the year 1948-49, the enactment in question shall have effect so as to require the sum to be set aside or paid for the said year under that enactment to be the appropriate fraction of the estimated amount which would have been so set aside or paid if the said enactment had continued in force for the whole of the said year. The appropriate fraction is the number of days in the period beginning with the first day of the said year and ending immediately before the date on which the enactment ceases to be in force divided by three hundred and sixty-five. 28.—(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect if Special the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of the National P’o\'s rs wer Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947, is after the beginning of, Grants lot but within, the year 1948-49. 1948-49. (2) The Secretary of State shall ascertain, in relation to every county and large burgh in Scotland, the total amount of the Exchequer Grants payable under the Local Government (Scotland) Acts, 1929 to 1946, to the council of the county or burgh for the year 1947-48.