Education Act 1946

11 Travelling expenses

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a local education authority shall have power to defray any expenses necessarily incurred by members of any divisional executive having functions in relation to any part of the area of the authority, or by members of any committee or sub-committee of such an executive—

(a) in travelling to and from meetings of such an executive or of any such committee or sub-committee ; or

(b) in travelling, by direction of such an executive, or of any such committee or sub-committee, for the purpose of doing anything which the executive, or the committee or sub-committee, require to be done in order that they may properly discharge their functions :

Provided that the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not authorise local education authority to defray any expenses incurred in respect of any journey which does not involve travel outside the area of a single county district.

(2) No expenses which a local education authority have power to defray apart from this section shall be defrayed under this section, and this section shall not affect any such power.

(3) No expenditure by a local education authority under this section shall be taken into account for the purpose of determining the amount of any sum payable to the authority out of moneys provided by Parliament.