HC Deb 06 August 1918 vol 109 c1302

(2) The following provisions shall (except as otherwise provided by the Education Acts) apply to any public inquiry held by the Board of Education:

(f) The Board may, where it appears to them reasonable that such an Order should be made, order the payment of the whole or any part of the costs of the inquiry either by the local education authority, if the inquiry appears to the Board to be incidental to the administration of that authority, or by the applicant for the inquiry, and may require the applicant for an inquiry to give security for the costs thereof.

Lords Amendments:

Leave out the word "the" ["the local education authority"], and insert instead thereof the word "any."—Agreed to.

Leave out the words "if inquiry appears to the Board to be incidental to the administration of that authority," and insert instead thereof the words "to whose administration the inquiry appears to the Board to be incidental."—Agreed to.