25Grants to fire authorities.
(1)The Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury make regulations providing for the payment by him to the councils of counties and county boroughs, and to authorities constituted by combination schemes, of annual grants in respect of expenditure incurred by them in connection with the provision of fire services of amounts not exceeding twenty-five per cent of the expenditure.
(2)Regulations made under the last foregoing subsection may make provision whereby the payment of grants in pursuance thereof is dependent upon the fulfilment of such conditions as may be determined by or under the regulations.
(3)Regulations made as aforesaid may provide for the deduction from grants to any authority, of amounts not exceeding the appropriate fraction of so much of the expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State under section twenty-three of this Act as is apportioned to the authority in accordance with the
In this subsection the expression " appropriate fraction " means the fraction of any expenditure of an authority incurred by them in the exercise of their functions under this Act which, after allowing for the grants provided under subsection (1) of this section but not for the deductions therefrom under this subsection, would fall ultimately to be borne by the authority.