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Local Government Act 1958

1958 CHAPTER 55 6 and 7 Eliz 2

An Act to make further provision, as respects England and Wales, with respect to grants to local or police authorities, with respect to the rating of industrial and freight-transport hereditaments and of transport, electricity and gas authorities, with respect to the making of changes in the area, name, status and functions of local authorities, and with respect to local government finance and elections; to amend the law in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland as to the making by trustees of loans to local and other authorities; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Councils of administrative counties, boroughs (except those in rural districts), urban districts, rural districts and urban parishes outside Greater London and Isles of Scilly together with municipal corporations of boroughs outside Greater London now abolished and councils of metropolitan counties, non-metropolitan counties and districts constituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), ss. 1, 2, Sch. 1

C2Act amended with the substitution for any reference to a rural parish or its council or meeting of a reference to (E.) a parish or its council or meeting and (W.) a community or its council by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179 subject as in that section mentioned

C3Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

Part I

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Part II

17–45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

Part III

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47–53. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

Part IV General and Supplementary

General amendments relating to local government finance

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56 Contributions by county councils to expenses of county district councils.

(1)

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(2)

A county council may make any contribution the council think fit towards expenditure . . . F9 by a parish council or parish meeting in connection with the exercise of the functions of the council or meeting relating to public open spaces.

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Supplementary provisions

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60 Transfer and compensation of officers.

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(2)

Provision shall be made, by regulations made by such Minister as may be determined by the Treasury to be appropriate in relation to the persons to whom the regulations relate, for the payment by such authority as may be prescribed by or determined under the regulations, F14or, in a case to which paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the M1Children and Young Persons Act 1969 applies, by the Secretary of State but subject to such exceptions or conditions as may be so prescribed, of compensation to or in respect of persons who are, or who but for any national service of theirs would be, the holders of any such place, situation or employment as may be so prescribed and who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to the provisions of any such order or scheme as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section or of any scheme or order under sections forty-three to forty-five, or Part VI, of the Act of 1933 F15or of any order under Part I of the M2Police Act 1964F16or section 32 of the Police Act 1996F14or of an order under section 46 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969F17or of section 2 or 6 of the M3Local Authority Social Services Act 1970; and so much of section one hundred and fifty of F18the Act of 1933 as provides for compensation shall not apply to any scheme or order under the said Part VI, but without prejudice to any instrument to which it is applied by any other enactment.

(3)

Regulations under the foregoing subsection may include provision as to the manner in which and the person to whom any claim for compensation under this section is to be made, and for the determination of all questions arising under the regulations.

(4)

In this section—

existing officer, in relation to an order or scheme, means an officer serving on such date or dates as may be specified in the order or scheme in relation to him;

national service means any such service in any of Her Majesty’s forces or other employment (whether or not in the service of Her Majesty) as may be prescribed by regulations under this section;

officer includes the holder of any place, situation or employment.

(5)

Any regulations under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

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F2163 General provisions as to local inquiries.

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64 Application of Statutory Instruments Act.

Any power conferred on a Minister by this Act to make . . . F22 regulations shall be exerciseable by statutory instrument.

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66 Interpretation.

(1)

In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—

Act of 1933 means the Local Government Act, 1933;

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F25the Generating Board means the Central Electricity Generating Board, and Electricity Board means the Generating Board or an Area Board;

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expenditure includes sums paid by virtue of a precept or other instrument or by way of contribution;

functions means powers or duties;

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(3)

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(4)

References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment, including this Act.

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68 Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Local Government Act, 1958.

FIRST SCHEDULE . . . F32

SECOND SCHEDULE . . . F33

THIRD SCHEDULE . . . F34

FOURTH SCHEDULE . . . F35

FIFTH SCHEDULE . . . F36

SIXTH SCHEDULE . . . F37

SEVENTH SCHEDULE . . . F38

F39EIGHTH SCHEDULE Minor and consequential amendments

Section 62.

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NINTH SCHEDULE . . . F66