HC Deb 03 December 1920 vol 135 cc1622-3

(1) (c) For the reference to Section sixty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, there shall be substituted a reference to Section sixty-seven of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889.

(d) For the reference to the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1908, there shall be substituted a reference to the Public Health (Scotland) Acts, 1897 and 1907.

(f) In Section three of this Act the expression "local authority" means a County Council or a Town Council.

(2) In the application of this Act to Ireland references to the Local Government Board for Ireland shall be substituted for references to the Minister of Health.

Lords Amendments:

In Sub-section (1) leave out paragraphs (c) and (d).

Leave out paragraph (f), and insert:

(f) The following Sub-sections shall be substituted for Sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section three of this Act:

(2) Expenses incurred by a local authority under this Section shall be defrayed out of such assessment as the Scottish Board of Health may designate and shall not be reckoned in any calculation as to the statutory limit of such assessment; and a local authority shall have power with the approval of the Board to borrow money for the purposes of any agreement entered into or any scheme made by the authority under this Section on the security of such assessment as the Board may designate:

(3) In this Section the expression "local authority" means a County Council or a Town Council.

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

(b) For the reference to the Housing, Town Planning, &c, Act, 1909, and the Housing, Town Planning, &c, Act, 1919, there shall be substituted a reference to the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1919.

(c) For the reference to Section sixty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, there shall be substituted a reference to Article 22 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898.

(d) For the reference to the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1908, there shall be substituted a reference to the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 to 1919.

(e) Where the Minister or a local authority have power to acquire land compulsorily by virtue of Section two of this Act, the power shall be exercisable in like manner as a power to acquire land compulsorily is exercisable by virtue of a Provisional Order made under Section ten of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, and duly confirmed, and the provisions with respect to the service of notice under Section eighteen of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall not apply.

Agreed to.