Public Health Act 1936

323 Subsidiary provisions on transfer of functions of body in default to county council.

Where any functions of the council of a county district, a port health authority or a joint board are transferred by an order under the last preceding section to a county council—

(a) the expenses incurred by the county council in discharging those functions shall, except in so far as they may be met by any grant made by the county council, be a debt due from the body in default to the county council, and shall be defrayed as part of the expenses of the body in default in the execution of this Act, and that body shall have the like power of raising the money required as they have of raising money for defraying expenses incurred directly by them;

(b) any such expenses as aforesaid shall, where the body in default are the council of a rural district, be raised as general expenses, or as special expenses, or partly as general expenses and partly as special expenses, according as the county council may direct;

(c) the county council, for the purpose of functions transferred to them, may on behalf of the body in default borrow money subject to the like conditions, in the like manner, and on the security of the like revenues as that body might have borrowed for the purpose of those functions;

(d) the county council may charge the said revenues with the payment of the principal and interest of the loan, and the loan, with the interest thereon, shall be paid by the body in default in like manner, and the charge shall have the like effect, as if the loan were lawfully raised and charged on those revenues by that body; and

(e) the county council shall keep separate accounts of all receipts and expenditure in respect of the transferred functions.