An Act to enable certain local authorities in England and Wales to promote safety in the home and to make contributions to voluntary organisations whose activities consist of or include the promotion of safety in the home.
[18th May 1961]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
(1)A local authority may promote safety in the home by publishing or making arrangements for otherwise giving information or advice relating to the prevention of accidents in the home.
(2)A local authority may make contributions to any organisation whose activities are carried on otherwise than for profit and consist of or include the promotion of safety in the home.
(3)There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to the foregoing provisions of this section in the sums payable out of moneys so provided by way of Rate-deficiency Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant under the enactments relating to local government in England and Wales or in Scotland.
(4)In this Act " local authority " means the council of a county district or metropolitan borough or the Common Council of the City of London.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Home Safety Act, 1961.
(2)Section eighty-two of the [5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. xxxv.] London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1957, is hereby repealed.
(3)This Act does not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.