§ (1) Where the council of a county are of opinion that for any reason it is expedient that the council should exercise, as respects any rural district in the county, any of the powers of a local authority under Part III. of the principal Act, the council, after giving notice to the council of the district of their intention to do so, may apply to the Local Government Board for an order conferring such powers on them.
§ (2) Upon such an application being made the Board may make an order conferring on the county council as respects the rural district the powers of a local authority under Part III. of the principal Act, and thereupon the provisions of the Housing Acts (including those enabling the Public Works Loans Commissioners to lend, and fixing the terms for which money may be lent and borrowed) shall apply as if the council were a local authority under Part III. of the principal Act: Provided that 98 the expenses incurred by the county council under any such order shall be defrayed as expenses for general county purposes.
§ (3) Where, under any such order, the county council have executed any works in a rural district they may transfer the works to the council of that district on such terms and subject to such conditions as may be agreed between them.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (2), after "rural district" ["as respects the rural district the powers of"], to insert the words "all or any of."
§ After "Acts" ["Housing Acts"], to insert the words "relating to those powers." —[Mr. Burns.]
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.