Clean Air Act 1956

13 Exchequer contributions

(1) The Minister may, out of moneys provided by Parliament, make a contribution towards the following expenses of any local authority, that is to say—

(a) any expenses of the local authority in making the payments under subsection (1) of the last preceding section which they are bound thereby to make ;

(b) any expenses incurred by them in making, in or in connection with private dwellings owned by them or under their control, not being new dwellings, adaptations to avoid contraventions of section eleven of this Act; and

(c) any expenses incurred by them in carrying out adaptations required by notices under subsection (2) of the last preceding section in or in connection with dwellings which are not new dwellings:

Provided that no expenses shall be taken into account under this subsection unless they are approved by the Minister.

(2) A contribution under subsection (1) of this section in respect of any expenses shall be a single payment equal, in the case of expenses mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection, to four-sevenths, and, in the case of other expenses, to two-fifths, of the amount of the expenses.