Criminal Justice Act 1948

77 Expenses and grants payable out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(1) Any expenses of the Secretary of State under this Act and any expenses of the Prison Commissioners thereunder, and any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State—

(a) in the training of probation officers or of officers or servants serving in approved probation hostels or homes or in remand homes or approved schools, or of persons for appointment as probation officers, or as such officers or servants as aforesaid; or

(b) in the conduct of research into the causes of delinquency and the treatment of offenders, and matters connected therewith,

shall, to such amount as may be sanctioned by the Treasury, be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(2) Any expenses incurred by the Minister of Health or by the Board of Control in connection with Broadmoor institutions or the management thereof, to such amount as may be sanctioned by the Treasury, and any sums by which grants payable in pursuance of regulations made under subsection (1) of section sixty-seven of the National Health Service Act, 1946, are increased by reason of any provision of this Act, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(3) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—

(a) towards the expenditure of local authorities, and the expenditure out of the metropolitan police fund, under the Fifth Schedule to this Act;

(b) towards the expenditure of any society or person in enlarging, improving or carrying on approved probation hostels or homes or establishing, enlarging or improving premises which, when established, enlarged or improved, will be approved probation hostels or homes;

(c) towards the expenditure of any body approved by the Secretary of State in the training of probation officers or of persons for appointment as probation officers;

(d) towards the expenditure of any body approved by the Secretary of State in the training of officers or servants serving in any place in which offenders or persons awaiting trial may be detained or serving in approved probation hostels or homes or the training of persons for appointment as such officers or servants;

(e) towards the expenditure of any society engaged in supervising or assisting persons released from a prison, Borstal institution or detention centre;

(f) towards the expenditure of any body or person approved by the Secretary of State in the conduct of research into the causes of delinquency and the treatment of offenders, and matters connected therewith,

such sums as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury direct, and subject to such conditions as he may with the like approval determine:

Provided that the sums paid as aforesaid towards any such expenditure as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection shall not exceed fifty per cent. of that expenditure.

(4) The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, make regulations providing for the deduction from any sums which would otherwise be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament to local authorities, whether under the last foregoing subsection or under the Children and Young Persons Acts, 1933 and 1938, of such amounts as may be prescribed by the regulations in respect of expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State—

(a) in the training of any such officers, servants or other persons as are mentioned in subsection (1) of this section;

(b) in making any payments under paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of the last foregoing subsection;

(c) in making payments under paragraph (d) of that subsection in respect of expenditure incurred in the training of officers or servants serving in remand homes or in approved probation hostels or homes or in approved schools, or the training of persons for appointment as such officers or servants:

Provided that the sums to be deducted in respect of any expenditure of the Secretary of State in pursuance of any such regulations as aforesaid shall not exceed fifty per cent. of that expenditure.

(5) The conditions subject to which any sums are paid to any society or person under paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of this section may include conditions for securing the repayment in whole or in part of the sums received by the society or person if the probation hostel or home in respect of which those sums are paid ceases to be approved; and, notwithstanding anything in the constitution of the hostel or home or of the managers thereof, or in the trusts, if any, to which the property of the hostel or home or of the managers is subject, the managers and any persons who are trustees of any of the said property may accept those sums on those conditions, and execute any instrument required for carrying into effect those conditions, and shall be bound by those conditions and by any instrument so executed and have power to fulfil the conditions and the obligations created by the instrument.

(6) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any sums by which any grants under section one hundred and four of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, towards the expenses of councils of counties and county boroughs are increased by reason of any provisions of this Act.

(7) All sums received by the Secretary of State under this Act (including any sums so received under arrangements made with respect to the cost of removing and maintaining persons removed from the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands to institutions in England under section sixty-one of this Act) shall be paid into the Exchequer.