Local Government Act 1929

Part IE+W Poor Law

1—14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1E+W

15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2E+W

16, 17.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3E+W

18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4E+W

19, 20.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5E+W

Part IIE+W Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages

21—25.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6E+W

26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7E+W

27, 28.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8E+W

Part IIIE+W Roads and Town Planning

29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9E+W

30, 31.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10E+W

32—39.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11E+W

40—45.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12E+W

Part IVE+W Miscellaneous Local Government Provisions

46. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13E+W

47. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14E+W

48. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15E+W

49. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16E+W

50. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17E+W

MiscellaneousE+W

51. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18E+W

52—56.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F19E+W

57 Relations between county councils and district councils in respect of public health functions.E+W

(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F20

[F21(2) The council of any district may at any time by agreement with the council of the county relinquish in favour of the council of the county any of their functions relating to public health upon such terms and subject to such conditons, if any, as may be specified in the agreement, and the relinquishment may be made either for a specified term, or pending the rescission or variation of the agreement, and any agreement made under this subsection may apply with such modifications and adaptations, if any, as may be agreed any of the provisions of this Act relating to the transfer of property and liabilities and the transfer, superannuation and compensation of officers.

A copy of an agreement made under this subsection shall forthwith be sent to the Minister.

(3) Where it appears to the Minister that the council of any district . . . F22 within a county have made default in providing their district or any part thereof with a sewerage system or sewage disposal works or an adequate supply of water, or in discharging any other function relating to public health which it is their duty to discharge, the Minister may cause a local inquiry to be made into the matter, and—

(a)if after such inquiry the Minister is satisfied that there has been such default, he may make an order limiting a time for the discharge of the function by the council of the district; and

(b)if the function is not discharged by the time limited in the order, the Minister may by order transfer to the county council the function with respect to which default has been made either for a definite period or until he may otherwise direct, and the order may apply, with such modifications and adaptations, if any, as appear necessary or expedient, any of the provisions of this Act relating to the transfer, superannuation and compensation of officers and any of the provisions of section sixty-three of the M1Local Government Act, 1894.]

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F23

58. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F24E+W

59. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F25E+W

60, 61.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F26E+W

62. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F27E+W

63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28E+W

64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F29E+W

65, 66.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F30E+W

Part VE+W Rating and Valuation

67. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F31E+W

68, 69.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F32E+W

70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F33E+W

71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F34E+W

Consequential ProvisionsE+W

72. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F35E+W

73. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F36E+W

74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F37E+W

75 Adaptation of enactments imposing limits on expenditure of local authorities.E+W

(1)Subject as hereinafter provided, any provision of any enactment imposing a limit upon the expenditure of a local authority for any purpose in any year by reference to any specified rate poundage shall, . . . F38, have effect as if for the limit thereby imposed there were substituted such a limit as would be imposed if the specified rate poundage were increased by thirty-three and one-third per cent, or such higher percentage as the Minister may by order in any special case allow.

(2)An order under this section shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made.

(3)For the purposes of this section—

(a)a provision shall be deemed to impose a limit upon the expenditure of a local authority by reference to a specified rate poundage, if the effect of the provision is that the expenditure is—

(i)not to involve a rate of or exceeding a specified sum in the pound; or

(ii)not to exceed the amount which would be produced by a rate of a specified sum in the pound, whether or not the expenditure is to be defrayed or the amount raised out of rates;

and any sum so specified as aforesaid is in this section referred to as a “specified rate poundage”:

(b)a provision that if the expenditure of a local authority exceeds in any year any specified rate poundage any functions of the authority are to cease or be suspended, shall be deemed to impose a limit upon the expenditure of the authority.

76. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F39E+W

77 Adaptation of enactments relating to water rates.E+W

(1)Any provision of any enactment directing that the amount of any water rate shall or may be determined by reference to the rateable value of any property as appearing in the valuation list for the time being in force, shall, . . . F40, have effect as if for any reference to that value there were therein substituted a reference to the net annual value as so appearing.

[F41(2) Where by any enactment, including this section, the amount of any water rate is to be determined by reference to the gross value or the net annual value of any property as appearing in the valuation list for the time being in force, then, if the value referred to does not appear in the valuation list, it shall, . . . F40, be determined in the event of any dispute by two justices of the peace in like manner as disputes are determined under section sixty-eight of the M2Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847.]

78. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F42E+W

79. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F43E+W

80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F44E+W

81. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F45E+W

82. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F46E+W

83 General adaptation of enactments and other documents.E+W

(1)Save as in this Part of this Act otherwise expressly provided, any provisions of any document directing that expenditure falling to be defrayed by two or more local authorities shall be apportioned between those authorites by reference to some value (other than rateable value) as appearing in or ascertained from the valuation list for the time being in force or as shown in, or ascertained in accordance with the Acts relating to, the basis or standard of county rates shall, . . . F47, have effect as if for any reference to that value there were therein substituted—

(a)in the case of a document, not being an enactment, as respects which a value is agreed upon by the local authorities concerned, a reference to that value; and

(b)in the case of any such document as respects which a value is not so agreed upon, and in the case of an enactment, a reference to rateable value as shown by the valuation list for the time being in force.

(2)Save as in this Part of this Act otherwise expressly provided, any provision of any document directing that the amount of any payment, not being a payment to which the last foregoing subsection applies, shall be determined by reference to some value as appearing in or ascertained from the valuation list for the time being in force or as shown in, or ascertained in accordance with the Acts relating to, the basis or standard of county rates shall, . . . F47, have effect as if for any reference to that value there were therein substituted—

(a)in the case of a document, not being an enactment, as respects which a value is—

(i)agreed upon by all persons having rights or obligations under the document; or

(ii)determined, in default of such agreement, by an arbitrator appointed by the Minister on an application made to him by or on behalf of any such person,

a reference to the value so agreed upon or determined; and

(b)in the case of an enactment, a reference to such value as may be determined by order of the Minister on application made to him by any such person as aforesaid.

(3)Before making any order under this section, the Minister shall require the applicants to serve a copy of the draft order upon any local authority affected and to give, in terms approved by him and in such manner as he may consider best adapted for informing any other persons affected, public notice of the application for the order and as to the manner in which and the time within which objections to the order may be made, and shall consider any objection which may be duly made within four weeks from the date of the notice, and in the event of any objection being so made and not withdrawn the Minister shall make the order as a provisional order which shall not have effect unless and until confirmed by Parliament.

84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F48E+W

Part VIE+W Exchequer Grants and other Financial Provisions

Discontinued GrantsE+W

85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F49E+W

86—92.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F50E+W

93. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F51E+W

94—100.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F52E+W

101. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F53E+W

102. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F54E+W

103, 104.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F55E+W

GeneralE+W

105 Application of Exchequer Grants, &c.E+W

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F56 all sums received by a county council by way F56 of proceeds of local taxation licence duties shall be applicable to general county purposes.

106—112.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F57E+W

Part VIIE+W Property Liabilities and Officers

Transfer of Property and LiabilitiesE+W

113. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F58E+W

114. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F59E+W

115 Parish property.E+W

(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F60

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F61

(3)The council of any county borough or urban district and the parish meeting of any rural parish not having a parish council may exercise the powers of executing works in relation to parish property which are by paragraph (i) of subsection (1) of section eight of the M3Local Government Act, 1894, conferred on parish councils.

(4)Any expenses incurred by the council of a county borough or urban district in relation to parish property shall be defrayed as the council may determine—

(a)from the general rate of the county borough or urban district; or

(b)by means of a levy of an additional item of the general rate on the parish or parishes to which the property belongs.

(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F62

(6)For the purposes of this section . . . F63, “parish property” means any property the rents and profits of which are applicable or, if the property were let, would be applicable to the general benefit of one or more parishes, or the ratepayers, parishioners or inhabitants thereof, but does not include—

(a)property given or bequeathed by way of charitable, donation or allotted in right of some charitable donation or otherwise for the poor persons of any parish or parishes if the income of the property is not applicable to the general benefit of the ratepayers or other persons as aforesaid;

(b)property acquired by a board of guardians for the purposes of their functions in the relief of the poor.

(7)In the application of this section to [F64Greater London] references to an urban district shall be construed as references to the City of London and to a [F64London borough], references to the council of an urban district shall be construed as references to the common council of the City of London and to the council of a [F64London borough], and references to the general rate of an urban district shall be construed as references to the general rate of the parish to which the property belongs.

116. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F65E+W

117†Transfer of road property and liabilities.E+W

(1)(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F66

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F67

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F68

(5)—(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F69

(8)Where any person or authority, other than a rating authority, receives any income applicable to the repair or maintenance of roads in any parish or other area, that person or authority shall pay over the income so received (less the amount of any expenses properly incurred in connection therewith) to the rating authority for the [F70rating area in which that parish or other area is situated, to be credited to that parish or other area]

118. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F71E+W

119, 120.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F72E+W

121—126.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F73E+W

Part VIIIE+W General

127

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F74, the expenses of the council of a county. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F75 under this Act shall be defrayed—

(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F75 as expenses for general county purposes;

(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F76

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F75

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F77

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F78

129 Provisions as to inquiries.E+W

(1)The Minister of Health may direct any inquiries to be held by his inspectors which he may deem necessary for the purposes of this Act, . . . F79.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F80

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F81

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F82

130. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F83E+W

131 Provisions as to orders, schemes and regulations.E+W

(1)Any order or scheme made under this Act may contain such incidental, consequential or supplemental provisions as may appear necessary or proper for the purposes of the order or scheme.

(2)Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, any order or scheme made under this Act may be altered or revoked by an order or scheme made in like manner and subject to the like provisions as the original order or scheme:

(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F84

(b)if, on the failure of a council to submit a scheme within the time allowed by this Act, a scheme has been made by the Minister, . . . F85, the scheme so made may be altered or revoked by a scheme made in like manner as the original scheme or by a scheme submitted by the council in question and approved by the Minister.

(3)Where any order (other than an order made under the last foregoing section or under Part IV of this Act) or any regulations are by this Act required to be laid before Parliament, the order or regulations shall be laid on the Table of both Houses of Parliament, and if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after any such order or regulation has been laid before it praying that the order or regulation may be annulled, the order or regulation shall be annulled and it shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new order or regulation.

132 Transitory and temporary provisions and adaptation of enactments.E+W

(1)The provisions set out in the Ninth Schedule to this Act (which relate to transitional and temporary matters) shall have effect for the purposes of this Act.

(2)The enactments mentioned in the Tenth Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the adaptations specified in that Schedule and the said adaptations shall, save as in that Schedule otherwise expressly provided, come into operation as from the appointed day.

133. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F86E+W

134 Definitions.E+W

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—

• “Appointed day” means the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty . . . F87

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F88

• “Certified” means—

  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F87, certified by the Minister of Health or such district auditor or officer of the Ministry of Health as he may appoint for the purpose:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F89

• “County” means an administrative county, but does not include a county borough:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F90

• “County of London” means the administrative County of London:

• “District” means county district, that is to say, a non-county borough or other urban district or a rural district:

• “Drainage rate” means any rate which is assessed under any commission of sewers or in respect of any drainage, wall, embankment or other work for the benefit of the land:

• “Enactment” includes any public general, local or private Act and any rule, regulation, byelaw, order, or award made under any Act:

• “Estimated population” and “estimated number of children under five years of age per thousand of the estimated population” mean in relation to any year, the population or number as estimated by the Registrar-General for the calendar year in which the year in question begins:

• “Functions” includes powers and duties:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F91

• “Local Act” includes a Provisional Order confirmed by Act of Parliament:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• “Minister” means the Minister of Health:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F93

• “Officer” includes servant:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F94

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F94

• “Prescribed” means, . . . F87, prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this Act:

• “Property” and “liabilities” have the same meanings as in the M4Local Government Act, 1888:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• “Rate” has the same meaning as in the M5Rating and Valuation Act, 1925:

• “Rating area” has the same meaning as in the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925:

• “Reduced rateable value” means, . . . F87, in relation to any hereditament, the rateable value thereof according to the valuation lists in force on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and in relation to any area the aggregate of such rateable values of all the hereditaments in the area:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F95

• “Road” means a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large, and, save as in this Act otherwise expressly provided, includes any bridge so repairable carrying the road, and “improvement” in relation to a road includes the fixing of a building line or improvement line under any enactment:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F95

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• “Sinking fund” includes any fund for the redemption of debt:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• “Spending authority” means the council of a county, county borough or district, the common council of the City of London, the council of a metropolitan borough, or a board of guardians:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F95

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F92

• “Unreduced rateable value” means, . . . F87, in relation to any hereditament what would have been the rateable value thereof on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, if that rateable value had been calculated in accordance with the enactments which were in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, but on the assumption that the net annual value of the hereditament was the net annual value thereof as on the said first day of October; and in relation to any area the aggregate of such rateable values of all the hereditaments in the area:

• “Water-rate” means any rate or other charge payable by consumers for the supply of water:

• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F96

135. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F97E+W

136. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F98E+W

137. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F99E+W

138 Short title and extent.E+W

(1)This Act may be cited as the Local Government Act, 1929.

(2)This Act shall not . . . F100 extend to Scotland, and shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(3)The Minister may by order direct that this Act shall, subject to such exceptions, adaptations and modifications, if any, as may be specified in the order, extend to the Isles of Scilly, but except as so applied this Act shall not extend to the said Isles.

The Minister may by any such order amend or repeal any provisions contained in the order relating to the Isles of Scilly, which was confirmed by the M6Local Government Board’s Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 6) Act, 1890.

(4)The Minister may by order direct that the provisions of Part III of this Act and such other provisions of this Act as relate to the property, liabilities, and officers of highway authorities shall, subject to such exceptions, adaptations, and modifications, if any, as may be specified in the order, extend to the administrative county of the Isle of Wight, and any such order may amend or repeal any provision contained in the M7Isle of Wight (Highways) Act, 1925; but, except as so applied, the said provisions of this Act shall not extend to the said county.