Expenses).

A.D. 1926. Minister of Health; so, however, that no portion of such expenses or allowances shall be paid, directly or indirectly, out of moneys provided by Parliament.

Prohibition
on double
payment,
&c.

Rules.

Definitions.

3.-(1) No member of a local authority or any committee of a local authority shall be paid more than 5 once in respect of the same expenses incurred or the same time lost.

(2) In case of any disagreement between local authorities as to the authority by whom such expenses or allowances should be paid, or as to the apportionment 10 between local authorities of such expenses or allowances, such question may be referred to and determined by the Minister of Health, whose decision shall be conclusive.

(3) Where under any other enactment, passed either before or after the commencement of this Act, a member 15 of a local body, or any committee thereof, is entitled to be paid any travelling expenses or to receive any allowance in respect of personal expenses or time lost, the foregoing provisions of this section shall extend as though such local body were a local authority within 20 the meaning of this Act.

(4) In this section the expression "local body' means a local body constituted by or pursuant to an Act of Parliament for any purpose of local government.

4.—(1) The Minister of Health may make rules for 25 the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act and for matters connected therewith.

(2) Without prejudice to this general power to make rules, rules made under this section shall provide for the payment of any expenses and allowances payable under 30 this Act without any claim being made therefor beyond such statement as is necessary to ascertain the amount so payable.

5. In this Act, except the context otherwise requires(a) the expression "local authority" means any municipal corporation, any board of guardians, any port, harbour, dock, or river authority, and any borough, county, or district council (whether urban or rural);

(b) the expression "committee " includes a sub-committee;

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Expenses).

(c) the expression "committee of a local authority
includes a joint committee of two or more local
authorities;

(d) the expression " prescribed " means prescribed by
rules made under this Act.

A.D. 1926.

6. In the application of this Act to Scotland, Application references to the Minister of Health shall be construed to Scotland. as references to the Local Government Board for

Scotland.

7. Nothing in this Act shall affect any power of a Saving. local authority to pay any fixed salary or make any fixed allowance to any member which might have been exercised if this Act had not been passed, but where a member of a local authority receives such fixed salary or fixed 15 allowance he shall not be entitled to receive any expenses or allowances under this Act.

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8. (1) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty six.

(2) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(3) This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities (Payment of Expenses) Act, 1926.

Commencement, extent and short

title.

Boroughs and Adjustments). [H.L.]

[NOTE.-The words enclosed in brackets and underlined were omitted by the Lords to avoid questions of privilege.]·**

A

BILL

INTITULED

MRARY

An Act to amend the law with respect to the A.D. 1926. constitution and extension of county boroughs,

and to amend the Local Government (Adjust-
ments) Act, 1913.

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, 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:

1.-(1) It shall not be lawful for the Minister of Limitation Health by Provisional Order to constitute a borough of power to into a county borough, and accordingly paragraph (d) of constitute subsection (1) of section fifty-four of the Local Govern- county boroughs. 10 ment Act, 1888, and in subsection (3) of the same section the words "or for constituting a borough into a county borough" shall be repealed.

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(2) It shall not be lawful for the council of any borough to promote a Bill for the purpose of constituting 15 the borough into a county borough unless the population of the borough, according to the published returns of the last census, for the time being is seventy-five thousand or upwards.

2.—(1) Where under section fifty-four of the Local Provisions 20 Government Act, 1888, a representation is made to the as to the Minister of Health by the council of a county borough extension for any purpose involving the extension of the area of

of county

boroughs.

Boroughs and Adjustments). [H.L.]

A.D. 1926. the county borough, the Minister shall not entertain the representation

Modifica

tions of the Borough

Funds Acts.

(a) unless he is satisfied that the council of the
county borough have sent to the councils of
the counties, boroughs and districts affected 5
notice of the proposed representation, together
with a draft of the order which they desire to
have made to give effect to their proposals;
and

(b) unless no notice of objection to procedure by 10
Provisional Order has been sent to him by any
such council within four weeks from the receipt
of the notice from the county borough council,
or unless every such notice of objection has
been withdrawn.

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(2) Where in consequence of any such notice of objection or on any other ground the Minister declines to entertain the representation, the application for the Provisional Order shall be deemed and taken to be a petition for leave to bring in a Private Bill, and the 20 notices published and served and the deposits made for the purposes of the proposed Provisional Order shall, so far as they comply with the requirements of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons respectively in the case of a Private Bill, be 25 held to have been published and served and made for a Private Bill applying for similar powers:

Provided that the council of a county borough shall forthwith inform all persons who have objected to the Provisional Order and other interested persons 30 of their intention to proceed by way of Private Bill.

3.-(1) Where the council of a borough promote a private Bill the sole purposes of which are to constitute the borough a county borough, or to extend the area of the borough being a county borough, and 35 purposes incidental thereto, section one of the Borough Funds Act, 1903, and the First Schedule to that Act (relating to the holding of meetings of electors and the taking of polls) shall not apply in relation to that Bill.

(2) The Borough Funds Acts, 1872 and 1903, as 40 amended by the foregoing subsection, shall extend to a