4 Financial.
(1)
A local authority may contribute a sum equal to the whole or a part of any such expenses as the following, that is to say—
(a)
as respects records under the authority’s control, expenses which have been incurred by any person in doing, by arrangement with the authority, anything relating to the records which the authority itself was empowered to do;
(b)
as respects records not under the authority’s control, being records which in the opinion of the authority are nevertheless of local interest,—
(i)
expenses which have been incurred by any person in doing any such thing relating to the records as the authority is empowered by subsection (1) of section one above to do in relation to records under its control;
(ii)
expenses which have been incurred by any person in looking after the records in a case where the authority are of opinion that reasonable provision is made for enabling persons to inspect and make copies of them.
(2)
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