HC Deb 22 July 1919 vol 118 cc1289-90

(2) Where the Board make an order under this Section the order may, for the purpose of enabling the county council to give effect to the order, apply any of the provisions of the Housing Acts or Section sixty-three of the Local Government Act, 1894, with such modifications and adaptations as appear necessary or expedient:

Provided that the local authority shall be entitled to appeal to the Local Government Board if. in their opinion, the amount of the expenses which the county council require them to defray or propose to charge against their district is excessive or unreasonable, or against any refusal by a county council to make an order under the said Section sixty-three vesting in the local authority all or any of the powers, duties, property, debts, and liabilities of the county council in relation to the powers transferred to them, upon any such appeal the Board may make such order as they may deem just, and an order so made shall be binding on the county council und tile local authority.

Lords Amendment:

At the end of Sub-section (2) insert as a new Sub-section:

(3) This Section shall apply in cases where a joint scheme has been or in the opinion of the Board ought to be prepared with the substitution of references to the local authorities concerned and their districts for references to the local authority and the district of the local authority.

—Agreed to.