Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 6 restricted by Children Act 1948 (c. 43), Sch. 2 para. 12
1E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 6 para. 1 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 c. 5 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2)
2, 3.E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
Textual Amendments
F2Sch. 6 paras. 2, 3 repealed by Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 (c. 20), Sch. 8
4, 5.E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
Textual Amendments
6(1)Any land which immediately before the appointed day was held by the council of a county or county borough for the purposes of any enactment repealed by this Act, or which on the appointed day vests in or thereafter is transferred to the council of a county or county borough by virtue of this Schedule, shall save as otherwise provided in this Schedule be deemed to have been appropriated for such of the purposes of this Act as the council may determine.E+W+S
(2)Any right of a council of a county or county borough subsisting immediately before the appointed day to use land for the purposes of any enactment repealed by this Act shall on and after the appointed day continue to subsist as a right to use the land for such of the purposes of this Act as the council may determine, subject however to the cesser of the right in any event (other than the repeal of the said enactment) in which it would have ceased apart from this sub-paragraph.
[F4(3)Nothing in this paragraph shall affect the provisions of the M1National Health Service Act, 1946, or the M2National Health Service (Scotland) Act, 1947, as to the transfer and vesting of hospitals.]
(4)In this paragraph the expression “land” includes any interest in land and any easement, servitude or right in, to or over land.
Textual Amendments
F4Sch. 6 para. 6(3) repealed (E.W.) by National Health Services Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), s. 57, Sch. 5
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Sch. 6 para. 6 extended by S.I. 1981/1837, art. 16
Marginal Citations
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Textual Amendments
F5Sch. 6 para. 7 repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), 8, Sch. 1 Pt. III , para. 87(3), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16)
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Textual Amendments
F6Sch. 6 para. 8 repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), 8, Sch. 1 Pt. III, para. 87(3), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16
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Textual Amendments
F7Sch. 6 para. 9 repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 5(1)(2), 8, Sch. 1 Pt. III, para. 87(3), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 2 paras. 6, 16
10(1)Where immediately before the appointed day a person was receiving relief in a workhouse within the meaning of the M3Poor Law Act, 1930, then, if he is in need of accommodation under Part III of this Act, the authority liable to provide the accommodation shall, so long as the need continues, be the authority by which the relief was given.E+W+S
(2)If immediately before the appointed day the cost of the relief referred to in the last foregoing sub-paragraph was recoverable from another authority, the authority giving relief shall have the like right to recover from the other authority the cost of any accommodation provided by virtue only of the last foregoing sub-paragraph.
(3)In respect of accommodation provided as aforesaid an authority shall be entitled to recover cost from another authority in accordance with the last foregoing sub-paragraph and not otherwise, but nothing in this paragraph shall affect any right of recovery from any other person.
(4)References in the foregoing provisions of this paragraph to the authority giving relief shall be construed, where the authority to whom application for relief was made and the authority managing the workhouse were not the same, as references to the authority to whom the application was made.
Marginal Citations
11E+W+SWhere immediately before the appointed day a person was being maintained, in pursuance of an arrangement made by an authority in the exercise of functions under the M4Poor Law Act, 1930, in premises not managed by a local authority, that arrangement shall for the purposes of section twenty-six of this Act be deemed, so far as it relates to the said person and until he ceases to be maintained in the premises, to be an arrangement under subsection (1) thereof, notwithstanding that the premises are not managed by a voluntary organisation.
Marginal Citations
12, 13.E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8
Textual Amendments
F8Sch. 6 paras. 12, 13, 17 and 19(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIX
14E+W+SWhere immediately before the appointed day the fact that a person was living in any place was to be disregarded in determining, for the purposes of any enactment repealed by this Act, his residence or ordinary residence, that fact shall be disregarded in determining his ordinary residence for the purposes of this Act.
15E+W+SWhere any right of a local authority to recover any sum from another local authority depends upon the determination under the M5Poor Law Act, 1930, of any question as to settlement, removal or chargeability of any person pending at the appointed day, section one hundred and five of the said Act of 1930 (which provides for the recovery of the cost of relief by one council from another) shall continue to apply, but as if for proviso (b) to subsection (1) thereof (which excludes the provisions of that section where a removal order is refused on grounds of irremovability) there were substituted—
“(b)this section shall not apply where the person whose settlement is in question has acquired a status of irremovability in the area of the local authority seeking to recover the cost of his relief.”
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16E+W+SWhere on the appointed day a local authority in Scotland hold as trustees any property wholly or mainly for the use or benefit of the poor (within the meaning of section fifty-two of the M6Poor Law (Scotland) Act, 1845) of the whole or any part of their area, they shall hold and apply the property or the income thereof to such charitable purposes for the use and benefit of the persons for whom it is the duty of the local authority to make provision or arrangements under Part III of this Act as the authority may think fit.
Marginal Citations
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Textual Amendments
F9Sch. 6 paras. 12, 13, 17 and 19(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIX
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Textual Amendments
F10Sch. 6 para. 18 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 c. 5 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2)
19(1)Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the M7Interpretation Act, 1889 (which contains savings for vested rights and liabilities on the repeal of enactments), a person shall not by virtue of any enactment repealed by this Act be under any liability (whether under an order of the court or otherwise) as respects any period after the appointed day to maintain any person [F11whom he is not liable to maintain for the purposes of this Act].E+W+S
(2)[F12Except as otherwise provided by the last foregoing sub-paragraph, any order of court or agreement made before the appointed day by virtue of which payments are required to be made to a local authority in respect of the relief or maintenance of any person while he remains chargeable to that authority under the existing poor law shall have effect, so long as accommodation is provided for him under Part III of this Act by that authority . . . F13, as if he were so chargeable.]
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14
Textual Amendments
F11Words in Sch. 6 para. 19(1) repealed (E.W.) (6.4.2009) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), ss. 147(1)(e), 170(3)(4), Sch. 15 Pt. 5 (with Sch. 13); S.I. 2009/462, art. 4(a)(c); S.I. 2009/631, art. 2(a)(c)
F12Sch. 6 para. 19(2) repealed (E.W.) (6.4.2009) by Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), ss. 147(1)(f), 170(3)(4), Sch. 15 Pt. 5 (with Sch. 13); S.I. 2009/462, art. 4(a)(c); S.I. 2009/631, art. 2(a)(c)
F13Words repealed by Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 (c. 20), Sch. 8
F14Sch. 6 paras. 12, 13, 17 and 19(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIX
Marginal Citations
20(1)For the purposes of any provision of this Schedule the expression “the appointed day” means such day appointed by the order under subsection (2) of section sixty-eight of this Act as may be specified in the order in relation to the provision in question.E+W+S
(2)References in this Schedule to a workhouse within the meaning of the M8Poor Law Act, 1930, include, in relation to London, references to an asylum provided under section one hundred and twenty-three of that Act.
Marginal Citations
21E+W+SThe following provisions shall have effect for the purpose of the application of this Schedule to Scotland:—
(a)for references to the Minister of Health there shall be substituted references to the Secretary of State;
(b)for references to a county borough there shall be substituted references to a large burgh;
(c)for references to the M9Poor Law Act, 1930, there shall be substituted references to the enactments relating to the relief of the poor in Scotland, and the expression “workhouse” means poorhouse;
(d)any reference to the local authority by which a poorhouse was provided shall include a reference to a combination of local authorities;
(e)paragraphs 12, 13 and 15 shall not apply.
Marginal Citations