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Housing Act 1957

Housing Act 1957 s 135

s 135 Expenses of rural district councils and county councils

(1) Subject to the powers of the Minister to direct the debiting of any expenses to the Housing Revenue Account, any expenses incurred by a rural district council under Part II of this Act or under the provisions of Part III of this Act relating to clearance areas shall be charged as special expenses on the contributory place in respect of which they are incurred: Provided that this subsection shall not apply to expenses incurred under section thirty of this Act or under Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any expenses incurred in the execution of this Act by a county council, other than the London County Council, shall be defrayed as expenses for general county purposes, or as expenses for special county purposes, as the case may require. (3) The following expenses incurred by the London County Council shall be defrayed as expenses incurred for special county purposes, namely— all expenses incurred in the execution of this Act which are attributable to the exercise by the London County Council of their powers under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, not being expenses so incurred in respect of houses or other buildings provided or land acquired or appropriated under the last mentioned Act after the sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and nineteen.

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