Local Government Act 1966

Discontinuance or reduction of certain existing grants.

12 Discontinuance of general grants and rate-deficiency grants.

General grants under Part I of the [1958 c. 55.] Local Government Act 1958 and rate-deficiency grants under Part I of the [1948 c. 26.] Local Government Act 1948 shall not be payable for the year 1967-68 and subsequent years.

13 Calculation of road-mileage etc. for grant purposes.

The [1958 c. 55.] Local Government Act 1958 shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as if it provided that the road-mileage and population of a county shall, for the purposes of subsection (4) of section 5 of that Act and paragraph 6 of Part III of Schedule 1 to that Act (which relate to the calculation of rate-deficiency grants and general grants respectively), be taken to be—

(a) in the case of the road-mileage, the total mileage, as estimated for the year 1958-59 by the Minister of Transport, of the highways in the county repairable by the inhabitants at large ; and

(b) in the case of the population, the population of the county on 30th June 1958 as estimated by the Registrar General.

14 Discontinuance of grants for school meals etc.

Grants under paragraph (a)(i) and (ii) of subsection (1) of section 100 of the [1944 c. 31.] Education Act 1944 (which relate to the provision of milk and meals) shall not be payable for the year 1967-68 or any subsequent year.

15 Reduction of grants under 1964 c. 18 s. 1 for 1967-68.

Section 1 of the Rating (Interim Relief) Act 1964 (which provides that where the number of persons over the age of sixty-five included in the population of a rating authority's area exceeds one-tenth of the population in a year not later than 1967-68, a grant for the year shall be paid to the authority at the rate of five pounds per head of the excess) shall have effect in relation to the year 1967-68 as if for the words " one-tenth " there were substituted the words " one-fifth ".