52Travelling expenses.
(1)As from the appointed day it shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be lawful for the council of any county to defray any expenses necessarily incurred by members of the council or of any committee thereof to which this section applies in travelling to and from meetings of the council or committee or in travelling by direction of the council or committee for the purpose of carrying out any inspection necessary for the discharge of the functions of the council or committee.
(2)No expenses which a county council have, apart from this section, power to defray shall be defrayed under this section, and this section shall not affect any such power.
(3)No expenditure by a county council under this section shall be taken into account for the purpose of determining the amount of any sum payable to the council out of moneys provided by Parliament.
(4)This section shall apply to any committee of a county council appointed for the discharge of functions throughout the whole area for which the county council is charged with those functions, and shall also apply to any sub-committee or joint committee so appointed as if it were a committee of the council.
(5)In this section the expression “sub-committee ” means a sub-committee of a committee of a county council, and the expression “joint committee ” means a joint committee or joint board appointed by a county council jointly with the council of another county or of a borough or with a court of quarter sessions.