§ (1) If under any other Act of the present session any sum is made available for the purposes of the provision of sanatoria and other institutions for the treatment of tuberculosis or such other diseases as the Local Government Board with the approval of the Treasury may appoint, such sum shall be distributed by the Local Government Board with the consent of the Treasury in making grants for those purposes.
§ (2) If any such grant is made to a county council, the Local Government Board may authorise the county council to provide any such institution, and where so authorised the county council shall have power to erect such buildings and to manage and maintain the institution and for that purpose to enter into agreements and make arrangements with local health committees and other authorities and persons, and to do all such things as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, any any expenses of the county council, so far as not defrayed out of the grant shall be defrayed out of the county fund as expenses for general county purposes, or if the order of the Local Government Board so directs as expenses for special county purposes charged on such part of the county as may be provided by the order.
§ (3) For the purpose of facilitating co-operation amongst county councils, county borough councils, and other local authorities for the provision of such sanatoria and other institutions as aforesaid, the Local Government Board may by order make such provisions as appear to them necessary or expedient by the constitution of joint committees, joint boards, or otherwise, for the joint exercise by such councils and authorities of their powers in relation thereto, and any such order may provide how, in what proportions, and out of what funds or rates the expenses of providing such institutions, so far as they are not defrayed out of grants under this Section, are to be defrayed, and may contain such consequential, incidental, and supplemental provisions as may appear 755 necessary for the purposes of the order, and an order so made shall be binding and conclusive in respect of the matters to which it relates.
§ (4) A local health committee may, with the consent of the Insurance Commissioners, enter into agreements with any person or authority that, in consideration of such person or authority providing treatment in a sanatorium or other institution or otherwise for persons recommended by the committee for sanatorium benefit, the committee will contribute out of the funds available for sanatorium benefit towards the maintenance of the institution or provision of such treatment, such annual or other payment, and, subject to such conditions and for such period as may be agreed, and any such agreement shall be binding on the committee and their successors, and any sums payable by the committee thereunder may be paid by the Insurance Commissioners and deducted from the sums payable to the
756§ committee for the purposes of sanatorium benefit.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), after the word "Treasury" ["with the approval of the Treasury may"], insert the words "after consultation with the Insurance Commissioners."
§ At end of Sub-section (1) add the words "and the Treasury before giving their consent shall consult with the Insurance Commissioners."
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Amendment proposed, at the end of Subsection (1), after the words last inserted, add,
Provided that such sum shall be apportioned between England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in proportion to their respective populations ascertained in accordance with the returns of the Census taken in the year nineteen hundred and eleven.
§ Question put.
§ The House divided: Ayes, 120; Noes, 47.
757§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (3), after the word "authorities" ["and other local authorities"], insert the words "(not being Poor Law authorities)."
§ In Sub-section (4), after the word "authority" ["with any person or authority that"], insert the words "(other than a Poor Law authority)."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]