§ 41. Mr. POTTSasked the Minister of Health the statutory authority under which the Barnsley magistrates have recently made an order requiring a man to contribute towards the support of his married daughter who happens to be an inmate of a mental institution, and who is also supported by her husband?
§ Sir K. WOODI presume that the magistrates' order was made under the authority of Section 19 (2) of the Poor Law Act, 1930. That Sub-section enables public assistance authorities to obtain, on complaint to a petty sessional court, orders of maintenance upon the relations liable to maintain a poor person, and the father is included, by Section 14 of the Act, among the relations so liable.
§ Sir K. WOODI should not like to state that.
§ Mr. POTTSIf the Minister cannot tell us the answer to that question, how are we to know the position of magistrates?
§ Sir K. WOODIf the hon. Gentleman will kindly put a question down, I will try to give him an answer.