Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No.7) Act 1911

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1911 c. clxxxiv
Year1911
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Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7) Act, 1911.
CHAPTER clxxxiv.
An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the A.D. 1911.
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Local Government Board relating to Christchurch and
Sheffield. [1.6th December 1911.]
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HEBEAS the Local Government Board have made the
Provisional Orders set forth in the schedule hereto under
the provisions of the Local Government' Act 1888:
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And whereas it is requisite that the said Orders should be
confirmed by Parliament:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled
and by the authority of the same as follows:
1.
The Orders as altered and set out in the schedule hereto Orders in
shall be and the same are hereby confirmed and all the pro- seh^dnle
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visions thereof shall have full validity and force.
2.
Whereas a Joint Committee of the House of Lords and Financial
House of Commons has been appointed to inquire into the jj^g'™61111*
application of the provisions contained in the Local Government accordance
Acts 1888 and 1891 and the Local Government (Scotland) Acts ^ ^m-
1889 and 1894 relating to financial adjustments consequent on
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the alteration of the boundaries of a local government area or mittee.
on an alteration in the constitution or status of the governing
body of a local government area and to report if they are of
opinion that any amendments in such provisions are desirable
Be it therefore enacted as follows:
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Local Govern-
ment Act 1888 the Local Government Act 1894 and
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ClxxxiV.] Local Government Board's [l & 2
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Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7) Act,1911.
A.D.
1911. of the two Orders set forth in the schedule to
~ this Act relating to,, financial adjustments no adjust-
ments to be made between the councils of the
county and county boroughs referred to in the Order
relating to Sheffield or between the councils of the
county and the borough referred to in the Order
relating to Christchurch or between any authorities
affected by either of the said Orders or this Act shall
be made except by agreement until after the thirty-
first day of March one thousand nine hundred and
thirteen or until the confirmation of a Provisional
Order made in pursuance of this section whichever
shall be the earlier:
(2) If the said Joint Committee report that they are of
opinion that amendments are desirable in the pro-
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visions contained in the Local Government Acts 1888
and 1894 relating to financial adjustments consequent
on the. alteration of the boundaries of a local govern-
ment area the Local Government Board shall in
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relation to each of the said Orders make such
Provisional Order as shall be necessary for the
purpose of applying the recommendations of the
Joint Committee so far as they are applicable to any
adjustments to be made between the councils of the
county and county boroughs or borough as the case
may be and the other authorities referred to in
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subsection (1) of this section Provided that no
Provisional Order made in pursuance of this section
shall affect any adjustment that may have been made
by agreement:
(3>)'The' provisions of the Local Government Act 1888
'relating to Provisional Orders shall so far as they
are applicable and with any necessary modifications
extend arid apply to any Provisional Order made in
pursuance of this section.
Audit of ac-
3.—(1)
Prom and after the thirty-first day of March one
counts of thousand nine hundred and twelve sections twenty-five twenty-six
ofSirist-011 dn& twenty-seven of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 and
church. section two hundred and forty-six of the Public Health Act
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1875 shall cease to apply to any. accounts of the mayor alder-
men and burgesses of the borough of Christchurch (in this
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Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7) ^, 1911.
section referred to as "the Corporation") or of the treasurer of A.D. 1911.
that borough or of the officers of the Corporation and all
accounts of the Corporation and of the treasurer of the borough
and of the officers of the Corporation under any public or
private Act of Parliament or otherwise relating to matters dealt
with by the Corporation in any capacity and including the
accounts of any joint committee and of the officers of any joint
committee appointed by the Corporation with the council of
another borough or with a county council or with a district
council or a parish council shall be audited by a district
auditor appointed by the Local Government Board in like
manner as accounts of an urban authority and their officers are
audited.
Sections two hundred and forty-seven and two hundred and
fifty of the Public Health Act 1875 and all enactments amending
them or applying to audit by district auditors including the
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enactments imposing penalties and providing for the recovery of
sums as well as all enactments relating to matters incidental
to or consequential upon any such accounts or audit shall
apply in like manner as if so far as they relate to an audit
of the accounts of an urban authority and the officers of that
authority they were herein re-enacted with the necessary modifi-
cations and accordingly all burgesses of the borough and all
ratepayers and owners of property in the borough shall have
the like rights and there shall be the same appeal as in the
case of that audit:
Provided that the ifirst Schedule to the District Auditors
Act 1879 as applied by this subsection shall be modified in the
manner described in the Second Schedule to the Local Govern-
ment Act 1888.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall apply to
the audit of the accounts of the Corporation for the financial
year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine
hundred and twelve.
(3) The Corporation may out of the borough fund
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Pay reasonable subscriptions whether annually or
otherwise to the funds of any association of
municipal corporations or other local authorities
or their officers formed for the purpose of con-
sultation as to their common interests and the
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