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Amendments made: In page 70, line 33, after the word "give," insert the words
or themselves take.
In line 37, insert the words:
(2) A local authority, other than a parish council, may, in the case of a person not employed by them but who is likely to be entrusted with the custody or control of money or property belonging to the local authority, take such security as they think sufficient for the person duly accounting for all such money or property."—[Mr. Shakespeare.]
§ In page 71, line 4, after the word "give," insert the words "or may themselves take."
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In line 8, insert the words:
(4) A local authority shall, in the case of persons not employed by them, and may in any other case, defray the cost of any security given or taken under this section, and every such security shall be produced to the auditor or auditors at the audit of the accounts of the local authority."—[Mr. Shakespeare.]