§ Notwithstanding anything in any Act, it shall be lawful for the managers of the Metropolitan Asylums district, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, to enter into agreements with any county council or, with the consent of the county council, with any authority in a county for the reception of insured persons and their dependents suffering from tuberculosis or any such other disease as the Local Government Board, with the approval of the Treasury, may appoint under Section 8 of the principal Act, into hospitals provided by the managers, and for this purpose the managers shall not be deemed to be a poor law authority. Any such agreements may provide that the cost of the treatment of the patients so received, or some part thereof, shall be borne otherwise than as 1660 provided by Section 80 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
§ Amendment made: After the word "hospitals" ["into hospitals provided by the managers"] insert the words "or sanatoria."—[Mr. Goldsmith.]