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Extend further the duration of the Poor Law A.D. 1924. Emergency Provisions (Scotland) Act, 1921, and to amend certain provisions of that Act as amended by the Local Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923.

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 Poor Law Emergency Provisions (Scotland) Continuance Act, 1921, as amended by section three of the Local subject to Authorities (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923, shall amendment continue in force until the fifteenth day of May, Geo. 5. c. 64. 10 nineteen hundred and twenty-five; subject to the following modification:

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A parish council may make such grants as they
may think fit towards assisting in defraying
the expenses of emigration of any destitute
able-bodied person out of employment who has
expressed a desire to emigrate and of any
persons in respect of whom such able-bodied
person would, had he been in receipt of poor
relief from the council, have received relief,
and the provisions of section one of the Poor
Law Emergency Provisions (Scotland) Act,
1921, shall apply to any payment so made
as if it were relief given thereunder to such
able-bodied person.

2. This Act may be cited as the Poor Law Short title. Emergency Provisions Continuance (Scotland) Act,

1924.

To extend further the duration of the
Poor Law Emergency Provisions
(Scotland) Act, 1921, and to amend
certain provisions of that Act as
amended by the Local Authorities
(Emergency Provisions) Act, 1923.

Presented by Mr. William Adamson, supported by

Mr. James Stewart.

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 5 March 1924.

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MEMORANDUM.

TABLE A.-SHOWING WHICH CLAUSE OF THE BILL
RE-ENACTS EACH SECTION OF THE EXISTING ACTS.