Local Government Act 1929

General.

4 (1) Any sum required to be paid from one council to another for the purpose of effecting an adjustment under this Schedule may be paid either by way of annual payments or by way of a single payment.

(2) Any capital money paid to a council by way of apportionment or adjustment shall be treated as capital, and applied, with the sanction of the Minister, either in the repayment of debt or for any other purpose for which capital money may be applied, and any other money so paid shall be credited to the county fund or general rate fund of the borough.

5 For the purpose of this Schedule—

(a) “the prescribed officer ” in relation to any poor law authority means the person who was immediately before the appointed day clerk to the authority or such other officer as may be designated for the purpose by the councils of the counties or county boroughs into which the poor law area extended, or failing agreement between those councils by the Minister; and

(b) references to a poor law area shall in relation to any time after the appointed day be construed as references to the area which immediately before the appointed day constituted the poor law area.