Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968

The Secretary of State shall make regulations for the payment by such local authority or police authority as may be prescribed by or determined under the regulations, but subject to such exceptions or conditions as may be so prescribed, of compensation to or in respect of persons who are 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 revocation or amendment of any regulations made under section 2 of the M3Civil Defence Act 1948.

The compensation payable by any authority shall be payable out of the same fund as expenditure of that authority under section 2 of the M4Civil Defence Act 1948, and section 3 of that Act (grants towards expenses of local and police authorities) shall apply in relation to expenses incurred in paying the compensation as if they were expenses incurred by virtue of section 2.

Different regulations may be made under this section in relation to different classes of persons, and regulations so made 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.

Regulations under this section shall not be made with reference to the revocation or amendment after the 31st March 1969 of regulations under section 2 of the M5Civil Defence Act 1948, but may be made with reference to the revocation or amendment of any such regulations and matters arising thereout before the making of the regulations under this section or the passing of this Act; but in so far as any regulations under this section are framed so as to operate with reference to a date earlier than the making thereof, the regulations shall not place any person other than the authority required by the regulations to pay compensation in a worse position than he would have been in if the regulations had not been so framed.

Regulations made under this section shall be made by statutory instrument and shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

In this section “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the M6Civil Defence Act 1948.

With a view to securing from the fees, charges or other payments required or regulated by the enactments mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 3 to this Act a net return corresponding more nearly with the cost of the matters for which they are payable, or to dispensing with payments from which a net return cannot reasonably be expected, those enactments may be amended by an order made by the Minister specified in relation to the enactment in question in column 2 of the Schedule, so as to vary any sum specified by the enactment as the amount or maximum amount of any payment, or so as to provide that any sum payable under the enactment shall cease to be payable.

The power to make orders under subsection (1) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

There shall be paid into the Exchequer any addition resulting from this section to the sums so payable by virtue of any other enactment.

This Act may be cited as the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968.

Subject to section 5(5) above, this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland, . . . F4