HC Deb 12 May 1898 vol 57 cc1157-8

Amendment proposed— Page 11, line 36, insert at end— And the amount of such poor rate may, if such council think fit, be such an amount as in their judgment will be sufficient after allowing for sums irrecoverable by reason of premises being empty, or any other cause, to raise or discharge not only the sum in respect of which the rate is made, but also such a sum as will meet the expenses of what is in their judgment a due proportion of the expenses incurred and to be incurred in and about making and recovering the rate."—(Mr. Plunkett.)

Amendment withdrawn.

Clauses 23 and 24 agreed to.

MR. MAURICE HEALY

asked whether there was any intention on the part of the Government that there should be any severance in the future of the functions of burial boards and the other functions of the rural sanitary authority?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

said it was not proposed to sever the duties of burial boards from other duties exercised by the rural district authorities.

MR. MAURICE HEALY

said he should like to ask the right honorable Gentleman whether it would not be necessary to make express mention of their functions, because if the right honourable Gentleman looked into the Public Health Act he would see that the burial board was practically elected of poor law guardians and the rural sanitary authority. At present they were practically the same body discharging different sets of functions. Would the new district councils carry over the functions of the sanitary authorities?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

said the district councils would take over all the functions of the rural authorities.

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