purpose in manner provided by regulations, by the clerk A.D. 1926. of the peace, and any such meeting may be adjourned:

Provided that an order restrictive of a previous order shall not be made except on a revision after the 5 publication of a census.

Any order of the confirming authority of the county for the purposes of this Act with respect to a county borough, city, town or populous place, shall specify the boundaries of the county borough, city, town or populous 10 place.

As soon as may be after the publication of each census, the confirming authority of the county shall, at a meeting to be specially convened for the purpose, revise orders then in force within their jurisdiction, and 15 may alter or cancel any of those orders or may make such further orders, if any, as they shall deem necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Act.

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4. (1) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Extent and

Ireland.

(2) From and after the commencement of this Act, sections one and two of the Licensing Act, 1921, shall be repealed.

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repeal.

5.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Licensing Act, Short title,

(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Licensing Acts, 1910 and 1921, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Licensing Acts, 1910 to 1926.

(3) This Act shall come into operation at the 30 expiration of fourteen days after the passing thereof.

construction, and commence.

ment.

Provisions).

MEMORANDUM.

This Bill extends for a further period of two years (i.e., to April 1928) certain temporary provisions originally enacted in the Local Authorities (Financial Provisions) Act, 1921. These provisions were extended (with certain amendments) by the Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923, and again by the Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1924.

The provisions of the Act of 1923 proposed to be extended are set out in the Schedule to the Bill.

These provisions as extended by the Bill are as follows:

(1) Until 1st April, 1928, repayments out of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund in respect of the maintenance of persons in workhouses or asylums are to continue at the rate of 1s. 3d. per day for each person, and there are to be included among the expenses to be repaid out of that Fund the expenses incurred in respect of outdoor relief to an amount not exceeding 9d. a day for each person in respect of whom outdoor relief is granted.

(2) The Minister of Health may authorise the repayment over a period not exceeding ten years of moneys borrowed by a local authority before 1st April, 1928, for the purpose of providing temporarily for current expenses.

(3) Money borrowed by a local authority before 1st April, 1928, if certified by the Minister to have been borrowed for the purpose of providing employment for unemployed persons, is not to be reckoned as part of the debt of the local authority for the purposes of any Acts limiting the authority's borrowing powers.

(4) The obligation upon the Minister of holding a local inquiry before sanctioning loans of local authorities in certain cases is suspended until 1st April, 1928.

(Emergency Provisions).

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Extend further the duration of the Local
Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923.

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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:

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1. The provisions of the Local Authorities (Emer- Further gency Provisions) Act, 1923, mentioned in the Schedule extension of to this Act shall, as amended by the Local Authorities duration of (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1924, have effect as if for Geo. 5. c. 6. 10 references therein to nineteen hundred and twenty-six there were substituted references to nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

2. This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities Short title. (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1926, and the Local Autho15 rities (Emergency Provisions) Acts, 1923 and 1924, and this Act may be cited together as the Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Acts, 1923 to 1926.