The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 : together with the regulations and rules made under the provisions of that Act, the departmental circulars, the Elementary (Defectice and Epileptic Children) Acts, 1899 and 1914, and, introduction and annotations / by R.A. Leach.
- Date:
- 1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 : together with the regulations and rules made under the provisions of that Act, the departmental circulars, the Elementary (Defectice and Epileptic Children) Acts, 1899 and 1914, and, introduction and annotations / by R.A. Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![any one year exceed an amount equal to that which would be produced by a rate of one halfpenny in the pound on the property liable to be assessed for the purpose as assessed for the time being for the pui’poses of that rate. (2) A local authority may borrow for the purposes of this Act in the case of a county council, as for the purposes of the Local Government Act, 1888, [51 & 52 Viet. c. 41] and in the case of a county borough council, as for the purposes of the Public Health Acts; but in the application of section sixty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, to money borrowed by a county council under this Act a period not exceeding sixty years shall be substituted for a period not exceeding thirty years as the maximum period within which money borrowed is to be repaid, and the money borrowed by a county borough council shall be borrowed on the security of the fund or rate out of which the expenses of the council under this Act are payable. (3) Money borrowed under this Act shall not be reckoned as part of the total debt of a county for the purposes of section sixty- nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, or as part of the debt of a county borough for the purposes of the limitation on borrow- the thirty years’ period is the maximum period allowed by section 234 (4) of the Public Health Act, 1875. Section 69 (2) of the Local Government Act, 1888, enacts that : “ Where the total debt of the County Council, after deducting the amount of any sinking fund, exceeds, or if the proposed loan is borrowed will exceed, the amount of one-tenth of the annual rateable value of the rateable property in the county, ascertained according to the standard or basis for the county rate, the amount .shall not be borrowed, except in pursuance of a provisional order made by the Local Government Board and confirmed by Parliament.” Section 234 (2) and (3) of the Public Health Act, 1875, enacts that: “ (2) The sum borrowed shall not at any time exceed, with the balances of all the outstanding loans contracted by the local authority under the Sanitary Acts and this Act, in the whole the assessable value for two years of the premises assessable within the district in respect of which such money may be borrowed. (3) Where the sum proposed to be borrowed with such balances (if any) would exceed the assessable value for one year of such premises, the Local Government Board shall not give their sanction to such loan until one of their Inspectors has held a local inquiry and reported to the said Board.” The effect of section 33 (3) is to leave borrowing money for the purposes of the present Act unlimited, subject to the controlling power as regards buildings that may be exercised by the Secretary of State. (See section 38 generally.) Accounts and Audit.—The accounts of County Councils are made up annually in the form prescribed by the Local Government Board, and are audited by the District Auditors of the Board. District Auditors are invested with powers of surcharge and disallowance and to prosecute for penalties and recovery of moneys. There is right of appeal as to the allowance as well as to the surcharge or disallowance of any item by the District Auditor. (Local Government Act, 1888, section 71, and enact- ments therein mentioned.) Under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, accounts are made up by the Borough Treasurer and are audited by three Borough Auditors, two elected by the burgesses, called elective auditors.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29010172_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
