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.

    30/128 (page 18)
    Act, 1948. | (3) The Secretary of State shall then ascertain, in relation of the contribution payable under section sixteen of the Old Age and Widows’ Pensions Act, 1940, by the council of the county or burgh for the year 1947-48. (4) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parlia- ment to the council of each such county or large burgh as aforesaid such sum as bears to the excess of the amount esti- mated under subsection (2) of this section in relation to the county or large burgh over the amount estimated under sub- section (3) of this section in relation thereto the like propor- which precedes the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947, bears to the number of days in the whole of that year. (5) The amounts paid under the last preceding subsection shall be paid in addition to any sum otherwise payable by way of Exchequer Equalisation Grant for the year 1948-49 but shall, subject to the provisions of the two succeeding sub- sections, be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Act as, or, as the case may be, as part of, the Exchequer Equalisa- tion Grant to the council in question for that year, and references in this Part of this Act to Exchequer Equalisation Grants shall be construed accordingly. (6) In computing the amount of the Exchequer Equalisa- tion Grant falling to be made apart from the preceding pro- visions of this section to any council for the year 1948-49, the relevant fraction for that council shall be ascertained as if the relevant local expenditure were diminished by the amount payable under subsection (4) of this section. (7) In computing the amounts of the Exchequer Transi- tional Grants, the amounts payable under subsection (4) of this section shall be left out of account. 29. All sums received by a county council by way of Exchequer Equalisation Grant or Exchequer Transitional Grant shall be applied. towards meeting the expenditure of the council (other than any part thereof apportioned and allocated to large burghs in respect of education or police) on all purposes for which the county council exercise functions throughout the whole county, including the small burghs therein, and all sums so received by the town council of a large burgh, and all sums received by the town council of a small burgh under section twenty- five of this Act, shall be applied proportionately towards meeting the expenditure which but for the said sums would