§ A local authority may, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, pay any reasonable expenses incurred by members or officers of the authority or of any committee thereof in attending a conference or meeting convened by one or more local authorities (whether local authorities for the purposes of this Act or for the purposes of the Local Government Act, 1933) or by any association of local authorities, for the purpose of discussing any matter connected with the discharge of the functions of the authority, and any reasonable expenses incurred in purchasing reports of the proceedings of any such conference or meeting as aforesaid:
§ Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of any other enactment for the time being in force authorising the payment of expenses incurred by members or officers of a local authority in attending a conference or meeting, or authorise a local authority to defray any expenses to which that enactment applies except in accordance with the provisions of that enactment.—[Mr. Ammon.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ This brings into line the Act of 1933.
2204§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.