[Report 1937] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1937
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    reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to carry out their duties thereunder”. The limited financial resources of rural councils and possibility of assistance by the county council are envisaged by the Act of 1936. Section 115 provides that the county council shall undertake to make a contribution to the rural district council of £1 per annum per house for all houses provided by them for the accommodation of the agricultural population of their district and may ■ mdertake to make a contribution in respect of any house provided with the approval of the Minister. Again, Section 124 provides that county councils may lend money to rural, as also to urban, district councils within their area, for the purposes of the Housing Act. The conditions subject to which such loans may be made are still those set out in the Housing (Loans by County Councils) Order, 1925. The related problem of smallness of administrative area which faces so many urban and rural districts can now be met by action under Section 151 of the Act, which empowers the Minister of Health on the application of any one council to make an Order, having the force of a Provisional Order, pro- viding for joint action by district councils for any of the purposes of the Housing Act. County Councils in administering the Housing Act must refer all matters relating to the exercise and performance of their powers and duties ther^nder (except the power of raising a rate or borrowing money) to their . ubhc Health and Housing Committee, which we have seen they were obliged to establish by fhe 1909 Act. (Housing Act, 1936. S. 153). Conclusion. In this way, it will be seen that the supervisory responsibffity o( County Councils has steadily Increased from 1888 to the present time. This extension has to a large extent, resolved itself around the enhanced powers and the responsibilities of the County M.O.H. The public health duties of the latter, as set out in the Sanitary Officers’ Regulations 1935, have been Duties are also Imposed on him by similar regulations urider the Housing Acts. There is a striking simillarity between the present legislative provisions in rj gard to public health and housing. Of both sets of provisions, it may be s.|d, in the words of the Local Government and Public Health mittee in their Second Interim Report (which, of course, concerns ^ alone), that the general idea is While the County Council ^ power (and duty) of calling the Minister s attention “ part of a County District Council, the actual weapon of default is to be ex clsed by the Minister alone .
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