The National Assistance (Adaptation of Enactments) Regulations 1950

4.  In section 184,

in subsection (1)—

for the words “becomes chargeable on the poor rate or” there shall be substituted the words “he is granted assistance by the National Assistance Board under Part II of the Act of 1948, or he is provided with accommodation by a local authority under Part III of that Act and payment for that accommodation is not made at the standard rate fixed therefor or, where such accommodation is temporary accommodation provided for less than a week or in special circumstances, at such rate as the local authority may determine, or he”; and

in subsection (2)—

for the words “relief or” there shall be substituted the words “expenditure incurred by the Board or the local authority in granting that assistance or providing that accommodation or towards the”.

The Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 6 Edw. 7. c. 48.

In section 28, in subsection (8), there shall be inserted after the words “reimbursement of” the words “or contributions in respect of”, and for the words “any union or parish” there shall be substituted the words “the National Assistance Board or any local authority”.

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 23 Geo. 5. c. 12.

In section 1, in paragraph (a) of subsection (2), for the words “the Acts relating to the relief of the poor” there shall be substituted the words “the enactments applicable in that behalf”.

In section 65, for the words from the beginning of the section to the words “the authority” there shall be substituted the words “Where a local authority for the purposes of the Children Act, 1948, satisfy a juvenile court that any child or young person in their care under section 1 of the said Act either by virtue thereof or by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule thereto”.

Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1937 1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 37.

In section 12, in paragraph (a) of subsection (2), for the words, “the Acts relating to the relief of the poor” there shall be substituted the words “the enactments applicable in that behalf”.

In section 69, for the words from the beginning of the section to the words “the authority” there shall be substituted the words. “Where a local authority for the purposes of the Children Act, 1948, satisfy a juvenile court that any child or young person in their care under section 1 of the said Act either by virtue thereof or by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 1 of the Second Schedule thereto”.

Polish Resettlement Act, 1947 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 19.

In section 3,

in subsection (2)—

for the words “other than medical needs as defined in the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934” there shall be substituted the words “other than medical, surgical, optical, aural or dental needs”;

in subsection (5)—

for the words “rules made under the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934” there shall be substituted the words “regulations made by virtue of subsection (3) of section 8 of the National Assistance Act, 1948”;

in subsection (7)—

for the provisions therein contained there shall be substituted the following provisions, that is to say, “Sections 45 and 52 of the National Assistance Act, 1948 (which provide respectively for the recovery of expenditure incurred by the Board in consequence of misrepresentation or non-disclosure, and for the prosecution of persons wilfully making false statements in connexion with the grant of benefits under that Act) shall apply as respects benefits under this section with the substitution, for references to expenditure incurred under that Act of references to expenditure incurred under this Act, and for references to any sum recoverable, or any benefit or liability, under that Act of references to any sum recoverable, or any benefit or liability, under this Act”;

in subsection (8)—

for the words from “to a petty sessional court” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words “to a court of summary jurisdiction as is conferred upon them by section 43 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, in relation to a person by reference to whose requirements assistance is given or applied for, and the powers of the court under that section shall be exercisable on such complaint”;

in subsection (9)—

for the words “subsection (3) of section forty-eight of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934” there shall be substituted the words “subsection (4) of section 56 of the National Assistance Act, 1948”; and

in subsection (11)—

for the words from “section forty-seven of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words “section 61 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, and any sums received by the Board under this section or under section 43 or section 45 of that Act, as applied by this section, shall be paid into the Exchequer”.

In the schedule,

in paragraph 3—

for the words “who is deemed to be part of the step father's family for the purposes of the Poor Law Act, 1930” there shall be substituted the words “who would be deemed to be part of the step father's family for the purposes of the Poor Law Act, 1930, had that Act not been repealed”; and

in the proviso to paragraph 4, for the words “the Act of 1934” there shall be substituted the words “section 53 of and the Fifth Schedule to the National Assistance Act, 1948”, and for the words “subsection (5) of section thirty-nine of the Act of 1934” there shall be substituted the words “subsection (1) of section 14 of the National Assistance Act, 1948”.