Local Government Act 1929 Part VIII — General

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , the expenses of the council of a county. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . under this Act shall be defrayed— (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . as expenses for general county purposes; (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Provisions as to inquiries.

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(1) The Minister of Health may direct any inquiries to be held by his inspectors which he may deem necessary for the purposes of this Act, . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Provisions as to orders, schemes and regulations.

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(1) Any order . . . made under this Act may contain such incidental, consequential or supplemental provisions as may appear necessary or proper for the purposes of the order . . .. (2) Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, any order . . . made under this Act may be altered or revoked by an order . . .made in like manner and subject to the like provisions as the original order . . .: . . . (3) Where any order ... or any regulations are by this Act required to be laid before Parliament, the order or regulations shall be laid on the Table of both Houses of Parliament, and if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after any such order or regulation has been laid before it praying that the order or regulation may be annulled, the order or regulation shall be annulled and it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new order or regulation.

Transitory and temporary provisions and adaptation of enactments.

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(1) The provisions set out in the Ninth Schedule to this Act (which relate to transitional and temporary matters) shall have effect for the purposes of this Act. (2) The enactments mentioned in the Tenth Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the adaptations specified in that Schedule and the said adaptations shall, save as in that Schedule otherwise expressly provided, come into operation as from the appointed day.

Definitions.

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In this Act unless the context otherwise requires— “ Appointed day ” means the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Enactment ” includes any public general, local or private Act and any rule, regulation, byelaw, order, or award made under any Act: . . . “ Functions ” includes powers and duties: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Local Act ” includes a Provisional Order confirmed by Act of Parliament: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Minister ” means the Minister of Health: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Property ” and “ liabilities ” have the same meanings as in the Local Government Act, 1888: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Rate ” has the same meaning as in the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Road ” means a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large, and, save as in this Act otherwise expressly provided, includes any bridge so repairable carrying the road, and “ improvement ” in relation to a road includes the fixing of a building line or improvement line under any enactment: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Sinking fund ” includes any fund for the redemption of debt: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ Water-rate ” means any rate or other charge payable by consumers for the supply of water: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Short title and extent.

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(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government Act, 1929. (2) This Act shall not . . . extend to Scotland, and shall not extend to Northern Ireland. (3) The Minister may by order direct that this Act shall, subject to such exceptions, adaptations and modifications, if any, as may be specified in the order, extend to the Isles of Scilly, but except as so applied this Act shall not extend to the said Isles. The Minister may by any such order amend or repeal any provisions contained in the order relating to the Isles of Scilly, which was confirmed by the Local Government Board’s Provisional Order Confirmation ( No. 6) Act, 1890. (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .