§ Where a parish council or a school board making any payment on account of a defective in pursuance of this Act, or of an order thereunder, is not the parish council or school board of the parish in which the defective has his legal settlement for Poor Law purposes—
- (1) the first-mentioned parish council or school board shall be entitled to reimbursement in respect of any such payment from the parish council or school board of the parish in which such defective has his legal settlement; and
- (2) if the first-mentioned parish council or school board establishes a claim for reimbursement as aforesaid, the district board of the district in which its area is comprised shall be entitled to the like reimbursement in respect of any payment made by that board on account of such defective from the district board of the district comprising the parish of legal settlement:
§ Provided that no liability to reimburse under this Section shall accrue unless written notice claiming reimbursement shall have been given by the first-mentioned parish council or school board, or in respect of any period prior to the date of such notice; and provided further that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to constitute the reimbursing authority the local authority concerned under this Act.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1) after the word "board" ["from the parish council or school board of the parish"], insert the words "as the case may be." —[Mr. McKinnon Wood.]
§ At the end of the Clause insert the words,
§ "(2) Where this or any other statutory provision confers upon a school board a right to relief or reimbursement as against the school board of the parish of legal settlement of any person, and there is no school district coterminous with the parish of legal settlement, the school board of the school district comprising that part of the parish of legal settlement in which the birth or residence determining the settlement took place shall be liable, except where the settlement has been acquired by residence within the districts of different school boards within the parish, in which case such school boards shall be jointly 1697 liable in such proportions as, failing agreement, shall be determined by the Local Government Board for Scotland, whose determination shall be final.
§ (3) In any case where parish councils or school boards differ as to the legal settlement of a defective but are agreed as to the facts on which such settlement depends, it shall be lawful for them, to refer the case for determination by the Local Government Board for Scotland, whose determination shall be final."—[Mr. McKinnon Wood.]