§ (1) The local health committee for any county or county borough may, if they think fit, extend sanatorium benefit to the dependents of the insured persons resident in the county, any part of the county, or in the county boroughs, or any class of such dependents, and in such case the arrangements to be made by the committee shall include arrangements for the treatment of such dependents, and the sums available for sanatorium benefit shall be applicable to the purpose.
§ (2) If in any year the amount available for defraying the expenses of sanatorium benefit is insufficient to meet the estimated expenditure on sanatorium benefit for insured persons and such dependents the local health committee may, through the Insurance Commissioners, transmit to the Treasury and the council or the county or county borough an account showing the estimated expenditure for the purpose and the amount of the sums available for defraying the expenses of sanatorium benefit, and the Treasury and council may sanction such expenditure.
§ (3) The Treasury and the council of the county or county borough sanctioning such expenditure as aforesaid shall thereupon each be liable to make good, in the case of the Treasury out of moneys provided by Parliament, and in the case of the council of the county or county borough out of the county fund or borough fund or borough rate, as the case may be, one-half of any sums so sanctioned by them and expended by the local health committee on sanatorium benefit for insured persons and their dependents in the course of the year in excess of the amount available for defraying the expenses of the committee on sanatorium benefit.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1) leave out the words "they think," and insert instead thereof the words "it thinks."
§ After the word "county" ["resident in the county"], insert the word "or."
689§ In Sub-section (2), after the word "may." insert the words "if they think fit."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]