(1)A local authority may, if the scheme under the last foregoing section so provides, employ as their agent for the purposes of that section any voluntary organisation for the time being registered in accordance with this Act being an organisation having for its sole or principal object or among its principal objects the promotion of the welfare of persons to whom the last foregoing section applies.
(2)A local authority may make contributions to the funds of any such organisation as is referred to in the last foregoing subsection.
(3)Section one hundred and two of the [19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 17.] Local Government Act, 1929, and section sixty-four of the [19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 25.] Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929 (which sections so far as still in force provide for the making of schemes for contribution by local authorities to voluntary associations providing services for the welfare of the blind) shall cease to have effect.