Local Government Act 1958

PART I Relevant Expenditure

Subject to the provisions of Part II of this Schedule, relevant expenditure for the purposes of this Act is expenditure falling within any of the following paragraphs.

1 Expenditure incurred by local education authorities as such.

2 Expenditure incurred by or on behalf of local health authorities within the meaning of the National Health Service Act, 1946, in respect of the carrying out of the functions of such authorities, whether under that Act or any other enactment, including the functions of such authorities as local supervising authorities under the Midwives Act, 1951.

3 Expenditure on fire services.

4 Expenditure incurred in the carrying out of any of the functions specified in subsection (1) of section thirty-nine of the Children Act, 1948.

5 (1) Expenditure incurred in connection with—

(a) the acquisition of land under Part I of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, under section thirty-eight or forty of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, or in pursuance of section nineteen of the latter Act;

(b) the acquisition under section forty-one of the said Act of 1947 of any building as respects which, immediately before the acquisition thereof, a building preservation order was in force or could have been made, the acquisition of any building by virtue of section nineteen of the said Act as applied by a building preservation order, or the acquisition under the said section forty-one of any land comprising or contiguous or adjacent to any such building ;

(c) the acquisition under any enactment not hereinbefore referred to of land for use as a public open space ;

(d) the payment of compensation under Part III or Part VIII of the said Act of 1947 ;

(e) the taking of any action under sections twenty-four to twenty-six of that Act, or the taking of action under the said section twenty-four as applied by any of the provisions of Part III of that Act;

(f) the carrying out of any work of restoring, repairing or adapting any buildings in the case of a building in respect of which a building preservation order was in force or could have been made immediately before its acquisition.

(2) References in this paragraph to expenditure incurred in connection with the acquisition of land include references to expenditure incurred in connection with the clearing and preliminary development of land.

(3) Regulations made by the Minister with the consent of the Treasury may provide—

(a) for treating the appropriation of land, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the regulations, as equivalent for the purposes of this paragraph to the acquisition of land at such cost as may be so prescribed;

(b) for determining how expenditure is to be ascertained for the purposes of this paragraph, whether by reference to expenditure actually incurred or by reference to annual costs incurred or treated as incurred in respect of the borrowing of money, or by reference to the excess of such expenditure or costs over receipts or the annual value of receipts, or partly in one way and partly in another;

(c) for the inclusion, in the expenditure incurred in the acquisition of land, of the whole or a part of any sum paid in connection with any restriction imposed on the development or use of the land by or under any enactment (whether by way of compensation or by way of contribution towards damage or expenses incurred in consequence of the restriction).

Any regulations under this sub-paragraph shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

6 Expenditure incurred by local authorities within the meaning of section five of the Road Traffic Act, 1956, in the making and carrying out of arrangements for promoting road safety by disseminating information or advice relating to the use of roads, or for giving practical training to road users or any class or description of road users (including the making of contributions towards the cost of arrangements for the like purposes).

7 Expenditure incurred in the provision and maintenance of vehicles or equipment for use by police forces in connection with the enforcement of the law relating to road traffic, so however that nothing in this Act shall affect the payment of the grants authorised by section three of the Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act, 1950, in respect of expenses incurred for the purposes of police forces.

8 Expenditure incurred in the defraying of registration expenses within the meaning of the Representation of the People Act, 1949 (including any payments made by registration officers as part of their registration expenses).

9 Expenditure incurred by local authorities within the meaning of the Physical Training and Recreation Act, 1937, in the provision, or in aiding the provision, of facilities for physical training and recreation, including the provision and equipment of gymnasiums, playing fields, swimming baths, bathing places, holiday camps and camping sites, and other buildings and premises for physical training and recreation, and in respect of the training and supply of teachers and leaders.

10 Expenditure incurred in the provision of such accommodation as it is the duty of local authorities to provide under subsection (1) of section twenty-one of the National Assistance Act, 1948, or in the making of payments or contributions under section twenty-six of that Act to voluntary organisations or incurred in respect of arrangements under section twenty-nine of that Act (which relates to welfare arrangements for handicapped persons).

11 Expenditure incurred in the making and carrying out of arrangements under the School Crossing Patrols Act, 1953.