An Act to enable local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain, repair and protect war memorials vested in them.
[18th July 1923]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
A local authority may incur reasonable expenditure in the maintenance, repair and protection of any war memorial within their district which may be vested in them.
Any expenditure to be incurred under this Act by a local authority shall—
(a)in the case of a parish council or parish meeting, be limited to an amount which will not involve a rate exceeding a penny in the pound for any financial year, and be subject to the approval of the county council;
(b)in the case of any other local authority, be limited to an amount from time to time approved by the Minister of Health.
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, county borough, metropolitan borough or other borough, or of an urban district or parish, and the parish meeting of a rural parish with no parish council.
This Act may be cited as the War Memorials (Local Authorities' Powers) Act, 1923.