Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

50 Assimilation of treatment of payments under Part V and certain other payments to treatment of remuneration in civil capacity

(1) Where any enactment (whether contained in or having effect under any Act) relating to the manner in which any expenses are to be paid or borne, or to the making of grants towards any expenses, would have applied as respects the remuneration which any such person as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section forty-six of this Act would have received if he had continued to be occupied in the capacity in question, that enactment shall apply in like manner as respects any payment under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act.

(2) In relation to the following enactments (which relate to contributions towards the cost of salaries of medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors), that is to say—

(a) section one hundred and nine of the Local Government Act, 1933,

(b) paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the Public Health Act, 1936,

(c) section eighty of the London Government Act, 1939, and

(d) subsection (7) of section eighty-seven of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947,

the reference in the foregoing subsection to any payment under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall include a reference to the remuneration of another person acting temporarily in the absence of the medical officer of health or, as the case may be, of the sanitary inspector.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall apply in relation to any agreement between the town council of a small burgh within the meaning of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947, and the county council relating to contributions by the town council towards the remuneration of a medical officer of health or sanitary inspector as they apply in relation to the enactments therein mentioned.