Coast Protection Act 1949

21 Exchequer grants

(1) Subject to such conditions as the Treasury may determine, the Minister may make grants towards any expenditure—

(a) incurred under this Act by a coast protection authority; or

(b) incurred by the council of a county in the carrying out of coast protection work under the enactments relating to highways; or

(c) incurred, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, by the council of a county, county borough or county district in respect of any coast protection work begun since the fourteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-five, being work carried out by that council and approved by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph, or carried out by some other person under an agreement so approved whereby the council undertook to defray or contribute towards the expenses thereof.

(2) Subject to such conditions as aforesaid the Minister may make grants to the Seaford Urban District Council for the provision of funds for meeting expenditure incurred by the Commissioners for the Newhaven and Seaford Sea Defence Works.

(3) In the application of this section to Scotland—

(a) in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section for the words " incurred by the council of a county " there shall be substituted the words " incurred by a local highway authority "; and

(b) in paragraph (c) thereof for the words " county borough or county district " there shall be substituted the words " or of a burgh ".