Unemployment Assistance (Temporary Provisions) (No. 2) Act 1935
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1935 c. 22 |
| Year | 1935 |
Unemployment Assistance (Temporary Provisions) (No. 2) Act, 1935,
(25 & 26 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 22.
An Act to make temporary provision for the financial adjustments necessary by reason of the second appointed day for the purposes of the Unemployment Act, 1934, having been postponed from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five; and to authorise the borrowing by public assistance authorities of sums required for the purpose of meeting expenditure incurred by them for the year ended on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, in excess of their estimates for that year.
[6th June 1935]
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 Grants to local authorities in consequence of postponement of second appointed day.
(1) For the purpose of making the financial adjustments necessitated by the delay in relieving local authorities in respect of expenditure in connection with relief of the poor occurring by reason of the second appointed day for the purposes of the Unemployment Act, 1934 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) having been postponed from the first day of March nineteen hundred and thirty-five, a grant shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section, be paid to the council of every county and county borough in respect of the period beginning with that date and ending with the thirtieth day of September nineteen hundred and thirty-five, or with the day before the date hereafter appointed as the second appointed day for the purposes of the principal Act, whichever is the earlier.
(2) For the purpose of determining the annual rate of the grant payable under this section to any council, there shall be ascertained the estimated expenditure (including the cost of administration) incurred by the council in connection with the provision, in the period beginning with the first day of December nineteen hundred and thirty-four and ending with the twenty-eighth day of February nineteen hundred and thirty-five, of relief which they would not have provided if the Unemployment Assistance Board had been entitled throughout that period to take into consideration applications for allowances which they are not entitled under the principal Act to...
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