Polish Resettlement Act 1947

X1 3 †Provision by the Assistance Board of accommodation in camps. U.K.

(1) The Board may provide accommodation in camps, hostels or other establishments for persons in Great Britain being of any of the categories specified in subsection (2) of the last preceding section, or dependants of persons of any of those categories or of members of any of the Polish resettlement forces serving therewith, or persons formerly dependent on a person who was of any of those categories, or was such a member of any of those forces, at that former time.

(2) The Board may make provision for meeting the needs ([F1 other than medical, surgical, optical, aural or dental needs], or needs as to education), and for promoting the welfare, of persons for whom accommodation is provided under this section, and may make such provision in such manner as appears to them most convenient, whether by themselves providing goods or services, by making payments to others for the provision thereof, . . . F2 , or partly in one of those ways and partly in [F3 the other].

(3) The Board may make arrangements with any government department or other authority or person for the provision of benefits under this section, on behalf and at the expense of the Board, by that authority or person.

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(5) . . . F4

(6) The Board may from time to time fix for benefits provided under this section such scales of charges applicable in different circumstances as may appear to the Board with the approval of the Treasury, to be appropriate, and may from time to time require payments for such benefits to be made in accordance with the provisions of Part II of the Schedule to this Act.

[F5 (7) Sections 45 and 52 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (which provide respectively for the recovery of expenditure incurred by the Board in consequence of misrepresentation of non-disclosure, and for the prosecution of persons wilfully making false statements in connexion with the grant of benefits under that Act) shall apply as respects benefits under this section with the substitution, for references to expenditure incurred under that Act of references to expenditure incurred under this Act, and for references to any sum recoverable, or any benefit or liability, under that Act of references to any sum recoverable or any benefit or liability under this Act].

(8) The Board shall have, in relation to a person for which they have power to provide accommodation under this section the like right to complain [F1 to a court of summary jurisdiction as is conferred upon them by section 43 of the National Assistance Act 1948 in relation to a person by reference to whose requirements assistance is given or applied for, and the powers of the court under that section shall be exercisable on such complaint.]

(9) The provisions of [F1 subsection (4) of section 56 of the M1 National Assistance Act 1948] as to proceedings on behalf of the Board shall apply to any such proceedings under this section or under Part II of the Schedule to this Act.

(10) . . . F4

(11) There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to the passing of this section in the sums payable out of such moneys under [section 61 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, and any sums received by the Board under this section or under section 43 or section 45 of that Act, as applied by this section, shall be paid into the Exchequer.]

Editorial Information

X1 S. 3 above extends to Northern Ireland only

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by S.I. 1951/174 (1951 I, p. 1369)

F2 Words repealed by Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30, SIF 113:1), ss. 8, 21, Sch. 5 Pt. II

F3 Words substituted by Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30, SIF 113:1), s. 21(5), Sch. 4 para. 1(1)(b)

F4 S. 3(4)(5)(10) repealed by Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30, SIF 113:1), ss. 8, 21, Sch. 5 Pt. II

F5 S. 3(7) substituted by Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 (c. 20), s. 39(2), Sch. 6 para. 3(7)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurate

C2 “The Board” means the National Assistance Board

Marginal Citations

M1 1948 c. 29.