s 17 Financial provisions relating to the councils of counties and county boroughs
(1) The council of any county or county borough may contribute towards the expenses incurred by any agricultural body or association in causing samples to be taken by an official sampler in the prescribed manner for analysis by the agricultural analyst. (2) The council of any county or county borough may fix the fees to be payable in respect of the making of any analysis by the agricultural analyst and the taking of samples at the request of purchasers, and the council may fix different fees for different articles and for different quantities of the same article or for different analyses of the same article. (3) The expenses of a council incurred in the execution of this Act (including any expenditure on the purchase by the council of articles for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act) shall be defrayed in the case of a county council as part of their expenses for general county purposes, and in the case of a county borough council, out of the borough fund or borough rate.