An Act to enable local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain, repair and protect war memorials vested in them.
[18th July 1923]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act extended (S.) with modifications by Local Government Act 1948 (c. 26), s. 133(3)
C2Councils of administrative counties, boroughs (except those in rural districts), urban districts, rural districts and urban parishes outside Greater London and Isles of Scilly together with municipal corporations of boroughs outside Greater London now abolished and councils of metropolitan counties, non-metropolitan counties and districts constituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), ss. 1, 2, Sch. 1
C3Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
A local authority may incur reasonable expenditure in the maintenance, repair and protection of any war memorial within their district [F1whether vested in them or not.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Local Government Act 1948 (c. 26), s. 133(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4S. 1 extended by Local Government Act 1948 (c. 26), s. 133(2)
Textual Amendments
F2S. 2 repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch.29 para.45, Sch.30
The provisions of this Act shall not apply to a war memorial provided or maintained by a local authority in the exercise of any other statutory power.
In this Act the expression “local authority” means the council of a county, . . . F3borough . . . F3district or parish, and the parish meeting of a rural parish with no parish council.
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F3Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), s. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. XII
This Act may be cited as the War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act, 1923.