Marginal Citations
1(1)Section 3 of the Polish Resettlement Act 1947 and Part II of the Schedule to that Act (which among other things authorise the Supplementary Benefits Commission to provide accommodation and goods and services for former members of certain Polish forces) shall be amended as follows—E+W+S
(a)for references to the Supplementary Benefits Commission wherever they occur except in section 3(5), there shall be substituted references to the Secretary of State;
(b)in section 3(2) the words “by making payments to persons for whom accommodation is provided" shall be omitted and for the word “another" there shall be substituted the words “ the other" ”.
(c)subsections (4), (5), (10) and (10A) of section 3 (which among other things provide for the making and observance of rules about conduct in accommodation and that the Commission’s functions under that section are exercised on behalf of the Secretary of State) shall be omitted;
(d)in paragraph 3 of that Schedule the words the words from “(including" to “repealed)" (which relate to the recovery of certain charges from a step-father) shall be omitted; and
(e)in paragraph 4 of that Schedule the proviso (which provides for an appeal about the amounts of certain charges) shall be omitted.
(2)In sections 4(1) F1... and 7(1) of that Act (which contain references to persons for whom there is power to provide accommodation under section 3 of that Act) for the words from “for whom" to “power" there shall be substituted the words “ for whom the Secretary of State has power" ”; and for subsection (3) of section 12 of that Act (which modifies references to such persons in the application of the Act to Northern Ireland) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(3)References in sections 4 to 7 of this Act to persons of any description for whom the Secretary of State has power to provide accommodation under section 3 of this Act shall include references to persons in Northern Ireland of any description for whom he would have power to so provide if those persons were in Great Britain.”
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 7