§ 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 dependants suffering from tuberculosis or any such other disease as the Local Government Board, with the approval of the Treasury, may appoint under Section eight of the principal Act, into hospitals or sanatoria 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 provided by Section eighty of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
§ Lords Amendment: After the word "council" ["with any county council or with the consent"], insert the words "or county borough council."