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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    —cont. to Health Service Exchequer Grants. Power to pay - council’s - contributions to voluntary associations ‘out of sums _ payable as Exchequer _ grants. ' Payments to county _ districts, Act, 1948. regard being had to the standards maintained in other areas ; OF (6) he is satisfied that the expenditure of the council has been excessive and unreasonable, regard being had to the financial resources and other relevant circumstances of the area. (2) Before reducing any grant by virtue of this section, the Minister shall make and cause to be laid before Parliament a report stating the amount of the reduction, and the reasons therefor, and he shall not make the reduction until the said report is approved by a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament. 7.—(1) The amount of any grant payable out of moneys provided by Parliament under subsection (1) of section fifty-three of the National Health Service Act, 1946, to a local health authority shall, in lieu of being determined by regulations under the said subsection (1), be one-half of the expenditure in respect of which the grant is made. (2) The provisions of the last preceding section shall apply in relation to grants payable under the said section fifty-three as they apply in relation to Exchequer Equalisation Grants and Exchequer Transitional Grants, subject to the following modifica- tions, that is to say— (a) the reference in paragraph (a) of subsection (x) of that section to the discharge of their functions by the council shall be construed as a reference to the discharge of their functions under the National Health Service Act, 1946, by the local health authority ; and (b) the reference in paragraph (b) of the said subsection (1) to the expenditure of the council shall be construed as a reference to the expenditure of the local health authority under the said Act. 8. Upon application being made to the Minister by the council of any county or county borough requesting that the contributions of the council towards the expenses of any voluntary association having as its object the promotion of public health services should be paid directly to the association out of an Exchequer FEqualisation Grant or an Exchequer Transitional Grant to the council, the Minister may pay such contributions accordingly, and any payment so made by him shall be deemed to be a payment to the council on account of the Grant. Payments by county councils to local authorities in county. 9.—(1) Before the beginning of the year 1948-49 and each subsequent year, the Minister shall estimate for the year in
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