Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1946
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1946 c. 24 |
| Year | 1946 |
Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1946
(9 & 10 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 24.
An Act to provide for the payment out of the Exchequer in respect of three years of grants towards local government expenses supplementary to the General Exchequer Contribution, for the making in certain contingencies of contributions by county councils towards such grants, and for purposes connected therewith.
[14th February 1946]
B 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, as follows:—
1 Payment of Interim Supplementary Exchequer Contributions for three years.
(1) A contribution towards local government expenses in counties and county boroughs, to be called the ‘Interim Supplementary Exchequer Contribution’, shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of the years beginning on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-five, nineteen hundred and forty-six and nineteen hundred and forty-seven respectively (in this Act referred to respectively as the first, second and third supplementary contribution years).
(2) The amount of the Interim Supplementary Exchequer Contribution for the said years respectively shall be—
(a ) for the first supplementary contribution year, ten million pounds;
(b ) for the second supplementary contribution year, eleven million pounds;
(c ) for the third supplementary contribution year, twelve million pounds.
(3) The Interim Supplementary Exchequer Contribution for each of the said years shall be paid in addition to the General Exchequer Contribution for that year, and, except as therein expressly provided, nothing in this Act shall affect the payment of any grant under the enactments relating to that Contribution.
(4) In section one of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1937 (which provides that the General Exchequer Contribution for the fourth or any subsequent fixed grant period shall be of an amount bearing a proportion not less than is therein mentioned to the total amount of rate and grant borne expenditure in the penultimate year of the preceding fixed grant period), the references to grant borne expenditure shall include references to such local expenditure as fell to be borne by grants paid under this Act and to such local expenditure as the Minister may determine to have fallen to be borne by advances made by him, out of moneys provided by Parliament, otherwise than under this Act or the Local Government Act, 1929 , or any other enactment relating to the functions of local authorities.
2 Apportionment amongst counties and county boroughs.
(1) The Interim Supplementary Exchequer Contribution in respect of each of the supplementary contribution years shall be apportioned amongst the several counties and county boroughs in accordance with the following provisions of this section.
(2) For the purposes of the apportionment for the first supplementary contribution year, there shall be ascertained in the case of each county and county borough the amount by which the produce of a rate of eight pence in the pound levied in that county or county borough for the year to be regarded for computation purposes (which shall be the year beginning three years before the beginning of the first supplementary contribution year) shows a deficiency as compared with the amount yielded for that county or county borough by making the following computation, that is to say—
(a ) by first adding to the amount of the Interim Supplementary Exchequer Contribution for the first supplementary contribution year the aggregate of the produces of rates of eight pence in the pound levied in all counties and county boroughs for the year to be regarded for computation purposes; and
(b ) by then assigning to that county or county borough a part of the sum obtained by the said addition bearing to the whole thereof the same proportion as the rate and grant borne expenditure of that county or county borough in the year to be regarded for computation purposes bears to the aggregate of the rate and grant borne expenditure of all counties and county boroughs in that year;
and the apportionment shall be amongst the several counties and county boroughs in the case of which deficiencies are shown in proportion to the respective amounts of those deficiencies.
(3) For the purposes of the apportionment for the second and third supplementary contribution years, the provisions of subsection (2) of this section...
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