10Grants to port and airport health authorities.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section the Minister of Health may pay to port health authorities grants of such amounts, and payable at such times and subject to such conditions, as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine in respect of expenditure on revenue account incurred by those authorities on and after 1st April 1967—
(a)in the payment of salaries to their medical officer of health and public health inspectors ;
(b)in the exercise of functions conferred or imposed on them by or under section 143 of the [1936 c. 49.] Public Health Act 1936 or the [1949 c. 55.] Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949;
(c)in the exercise in relation to imported food of functions conferred or imposed on them by or under the [1955 c. 16 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2.).] Food and Drugs Act 1955.
(2)Subject to the provisions of this section the Minister of Health may pay to the councils of county districts grants of such amounts, and payable at such times and subject to such conditions, as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine in respect of expenditure on revenue account incurred by those councils on or after 1st April 1967 in the exercise of functions conferred on them by or under section 143 of the Public Health Act 1936 in relation to the prevention of danger to public health from aircraft arriving at or leaving any place.
(3)The amount of the grant payable under this section in respect of any expenditure shall not exceed one half of that expenditure; and no grant shall be paid under subsection (2) of this section in respect of expenditure incurred in the exercise of functions in relation to aircraft arriving at or leaving an airport vested in or under the control of the Board of Trade or an aerodrome owned or managed by the British Airports Authority.
(4)No payment shall be made by the councils of counties and county boroughs under Schedule 1 to the Public Health Act 1936 on account of salaries of medical officers of health or public health inspectors accruing on or after 1st April 1967.