Local Authorities (Financial Provisions) Act 1921
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1921 c. 67 |
| Year | 1921 |
Local Authorities (Financial Provisions) Act, 1921
(11 & 12 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 67.
An Act to make further provision with respect to the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund and with respect to rating and to the finance of certain Local and Public Authorities.
[10th November 1921]
Be 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, as follows:—
1 Temporary extension of charges on the Metropolitan Poor Fund.
(1) Subsection (3) of section one of the Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1870 (which relates to repayments out of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund in respect of the maintenance of paupers in workhouses or asylums), shall, as respects the half-year current at the passing of this Act and any subsequent half-year ending before the expiration of this section, have effect as though the words ‘at the rate of one shilling and threepence per day’ were substituted for the words ‘at the rate of fivepence per day’.
(2) In respect of the same half years there shall be included amongst the expenses to be repaid out of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund the expenses incurred in respect of out-door relief, so however that no repayment shall be made in respect of relief granted in excess of such scale or in contravention of such conditions as shall be prescribed by regulations of the Minister of Health. Such scale and regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
The power of the Minister of Health to make such regulations shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers possessed by him of making rules, orders, or regulations respecting the grant of out-door relief.
(3) Where the Minister of Health is satisfied that proper investigation has not been made within a reasonable time of the granting of out-door relief, no repayment shall be made in respect of that relief.
(4) This section shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and no longer, but the expiration of this section shall not affect any liability to make contributions or right to be repaid expenses in respect of any half-year ending before such expiration.
2 Power to appoint receiver where metropolitan borough council fails to meet precept.
(1) Where, in pursuance of a precept issued by an authority either before or after the passing of this Act, any sum is payable, directly or indirectly, by the council of a metropolitan borough to that authority, and the Minister of Health is satisfied that the council have refused or neglected to raise the amount by a rate, or that, having raised the amount by a rate, the council have refused or neglected to pay the amount due under the precept, the Minister may issue a certificate to that effect, and thereupon the authority shall have the like power of applying for the appointment of a receiver, and a receiver may, upon such application, be appointed in like manner and, when appointed, have the like power as if the authority were a secured creditor of the council for the sum due under the precept with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date when the amount became payable under the precept, and that sum and interest were due under a security issued under the Local Loans Act, 1875 , charging the same on the rates leviable by and on all other property of the council, and the conditions under which a receiver may, in such a case, be appointed under section twelve of that Act were fulfilled, and that section shall apply accordingly:
Provided that the application may be made by the Minister instead of by the authority if the Minister thinks fit.
(2) Where an authority have issued a precept to a board of guardians in the administrative county of London and the Minister is satisfied that the board of guardians have failed to include the amount of the precept in any precept issued by them to a metropolitan borough council, the Minister may, by order, cancel the precept to the guardians and authorise the authority to issue a...
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