No provision shall be made for any payment to a local authority under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and fifty-two of the [23 & 24 Geo. 5. c. 51.] Local Government Act, 1933, either as originally enacted, or as applied by any subsequent enactment, in respect of any increase of burden due to an alteration of boundaries or other change taking place after the end of the year 1947-48.
(1)This section shall have effect as respects the following enactments (which contain financial provisions relating to the third fixed grant period), that is to say—
(a)section ninety-three of the Local Government Act, 1929, (which provides for schemes for increasing the sum to be set aside out of a county apportionment in respect of a district the council of which has established a maternity and child welfare committee) ;
(b)sections one hundred and one and one hundred and two of the said Act (which provide for schemes for the payment of contributions by the councils of counties or county boroughs to voluntary associations or to the King Edward the Seventh Welsh National Memorial Association in respect of maternity and child welfare and other health services) ;
(c)section four of the [26 Geo. 5. and 1 Edw. 8. c. 40.] Midwives Act, 1936, and section two of the [2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 13.] Cancer Act, 1939, (under which Exchequer grants are payable in respect of expenditure imposed by those Acts).
(2)Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, the third fixed grant period shall not for the purposes of any of the said enactments be deemed to have terminated until immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of the National Health Service Act, 1946, and payments shall be made accordingly ; and, without prejudice to the generality of the preceding words, payments shall be made under schemes made under section ninety-three of the Local Government Act, 1929, as if there had continued to be county apportionments :
Provided that any sum payable by the Minister by virtue of this section under any such scheme as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall be paid by him out of the Exchequer Transitional Grant or Exchequer Equalisation Grant, if any, of the county or county borough council in question for the year 1948-49 and, in so far as it cannot be so paid, shall be paid out of moneys to be paid to the Minister by that council.
(3)If the date on which any of the said enactments ceases to be in force (either by virtue of an Order in Council fixing an appointed day under the National Health Service Act, 1946, or of any Act of the present Session terminating the existing poor law) is a date before the end of the year 1948-49, the enactment in question and any relevant scheme made thereunder shall have effect so as to require the sum to be set aside or paid for the said year under that enactment or scheme to be the appropriate fraction of the estimated amount which would have been so set aside or paid if the said enactment had continued in force for the whole of the said year.
The appropriate fraction is the number of days in the period beginning with the first day of the said year and ending immediately before the date on which the enactment ceases to be in force divided by three hundred and sixty-five.
(4)Any scheme made under any of the enactments, mentioned in paragraph (a) or paragraph '(b) of subsection (1) of this section which, by virtue of this section, continues in operation on or after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, may be altered or revoked by a subsequent scheme made at any time between that date and the date when the enactment in question ceases to be in force as aforesaid.
(1)The provisions of this section shall have effect if the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of the National Health Service Act, 1946, is after the beginning of, but within, the year 1948-49.
(2)The Minister shall ascertain, in relation to every county and county borough in England and Wales, the total amount of the Exchequer Grants payable under the Local Government Acts, 1929 to 1946—
(a)in the case of a county, to the council of the county or to any other local authority in the county ;
(b)in the case of a county borough, to the council of thecounty borough,
for the year 1947-48.
(3)The Minister shall then ascertain, in relation to each such county and county borough as aforesaid, the amount of the contributions payable under section three of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1937, section sixteen of the Old Age and Widows' Pensions Act, 1940, and section three of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1946, by the council of the county or county borough for the year 1947-48.
(4)There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament to each such county or county borough as aforesaid such sum as bears to the excess of the amount estimated under subsection (2) of this section in relation to the county or county borough over the amount estimated under subsection (3) of this section in relation thereto the like proportion as the number of days in the part of the year 1948-49 which precedes the appointed day for the purposes of Part II of the National Health Service Act, 1946 bears to the number of days in the whole of that year.
(5)The amounts paid under the last preceding subsection shall be-paid in addition to any sum otherwise payable by way of Exchequer Equalisation Grant, for the year 1948-49 but shall, subject to the provisions of the two succeeding subsections, be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Act as, or, as the case may be, as part of, the Exchequer Equalisation Grant to the council in question for that year, and references in this Part of this Act to Exchequer Equalisation Grants shall be construed accordingly.
(6)In computing the amount of the Exchequer Equalisation Grant falling to be made apart from the preceding provisions of this section to any council for the year 1948-49, the relevant fraction for that council shall be ascertained as if the relevant local expenditure were diminished by the amount payable under subsection (4) of this section.
(7)In computing the amounts of the Exchequer Transitional Grants, the amounts payable under subsection (4) of this section shall be left out of account.
(1)In the year in which the first new valuation lists under Part III of this Act come into force and every fifth subsequent year, the Minister shall, in consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and with any local authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable, cause investigations to be made into the working of this Part of this Act (due regard being had, amongst other things, to the sums falling to be paid to local authorities under Part V of this Act).
(2)The Minister shall cause a report of the result of any investigation under this section to be laid before Parliament.
(1)The Minister may make regulations for carrying this Part of this Act into effect and in particular—
(a)for determining the manner in which', subject to the express provisions of this Part of this Act, any calculation or estimate is to be made for any of the purposes of this Part of this Act and, in particular, for determining—
(i)the authority or person by or to whom any information required for the said purposes is to be given and the time at which and the form in which it is to be given ;
(ii)the adjustments to be made for any abnormal treatment of income or expenditure in accounts ;
(b)for determining the times at which payments in respect of Exchequer Equalisation Grants and Exchequer Transitional Grants and payments by local authorities under this-Part of this Act are to be made ;
(c)for providing that the calculations or estimates by reference to which any payments or grants are made may be treated as either conclusive or provisional or conclusive for some purposes and provisional for other purposes and, in so far as they are treated as provisional, for the making of further calculations or estimates based on information not previously available and for adjusting, in the light thereof, any payments or grants already made;
(d)for modifying the operation of this Part of this Act in relation to any authority if and in so far as any such modification, is required in relation to that authority in consequence of any alterations or combinations of authorities or alterations of boundaries :
Provided that regulations shall not be made under paragraph (b) of this subsection with respect to Exchequer Equalisation Grants or Exchequer Transitional Grants except with the consent of the Treasury.
(2)The population of an area and the number of children under fifteen years of age in an area shall be calculated for the purposes of this Part of this Act by reference to estimates of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and the road-mileage of an area shall be taken for the purposes of this Part of this Act to be the total mileage of highways in that area repairable by the inhabitants at large as estimated by the Minister of Transport.
This Part of this Act shall not extend to Scotland.