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(a) Submission to the Local Government Board of 5th Sch. (09). the proposed scheme, with plans and estimates.

(b) Notice of submission of proposed scheme to the

Local Government Board.

(c) Hearing of objections and representations by persons affected, including persons representing architectural or archæological societies or otherwise interested in the amenity of the proposed scheme. (d) Publication of notice of intention to approve scheme and the lodging of objections thereto. 3. Procedure after the approval of the scheme :(a) Notice to be given of approval of scheme. (b) Inquiries and reports as to the beginning and the progress and completion of works, and other action under the scheme.

4. Duty, at any stage, of the local authority to publish or deposit for inspection any scheme or proposed scheme, and the plans relating thereto, and to give information to persons affected with reference to any such scheme or proposed scheme.

5. The details to be specified in plans, including, wherever the circumstances so require, the restrictions on the number of buildings which may be erected on each acre, and the height and character of those buildings. (See next page for 6th Schedule.)

6th Sch. (09).

Section 75.

Session and Chapter.

51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 70.

SIXTH SCHEDULE

ENACTMENTS REPEALED

Short Title.

The Local Government Act, 1888.

The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.

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The words" for sanitary purposes" paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section six.

Subsection (6) of section eight, and section nine.

Subsection (5) of section twelve. Subsection (2) of section fifteen, including the proviso thereto. Sections seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen.

In section twenty-five, the words at the end of the section "such loan shall be repaid within such period, not exceeding fifty years, as may be recommended by the confirming authority.' Sections twenty-seven and twentyeight.

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In section twenty-nine, the words means any inhabited building and in the definition of 'dwelling-house."

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Sections thirty-two and thirtythree.

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In section thirty-nine, the words "by agreement" in subsection (4) where those words first occur, and all after the word sanctioned " to the end of that subsection; subsections (5) and (6); the words "to costs to be awarded in certain cases by a Committee of either House of Parliament" in subsection (8); and subsection (9) from "Provided that" to the end. In subsection (3) of section fortyseven, the words "the time allowed under any order for the execution of any works or the demolition of a building, or". In section fifty-three, subsection (2).

Section fifty-four, so far as unrepealed.

Section fifty-five, so far as it applies to Scotland.

Section sixty-three.

Section sixty-five, from " and (iii)"

to the end of the section.

In section sixty-six, the words

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or special.'

Section seventy-seven.

Section eighty-three.

In section eighty-five, the words "not exceeding three guineas a day."

Section ninety-two, from "

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to the end of the section. Subsection (3) except paragraph (c), and subsection (4) of section ninety-four.

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Powers of the Local

HOUSING ACT, 1914 [4 & 5 GEO. 5. CH. 31.]

An Act to make provision with respect to the Housing of
Persons employed by or on behalf of Government
Departments where sufficient dwelling accommodation
is not available.
[10th August 1914.]

BE it 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. (1.) The Local Government Board shall have Government power, with the approval of the Treasury, to make arrangeBoard and ments with any authorised society within the meaning Commissioners of of this Act for the purpose of the provision, maintenance, Works for the purpose and management of dwellings and gardens and other of housing persons emworks or buildings for or for the convenience of persons ployed by Government employed by or on behalf of Government departments departments. on Government works where sufficient dwelling accom

modation is not available for those persons, and the Commissioners of Works shall have power for the same purpose, with the consent of the Treasury, given after consultation with the Local Government Board, to acquire and dispose of land and buildings, and to build dwellings, and do all other things which appear to them necessary or desirable for effecting that purpose.

(2.) The Local Government Board may, with the approval of the Treasury, assist any authorised society with whom arrangements are made under this Act on

such conditions as they think fit by becoming holders of the share or loan capital thereof or making loans thereto or otherwise as they think fit.

Where the Local Government Board make arrangements under this Act with any authorised society in connexion with the provision or maintenance of dwellings within any borough, the council of the borough shall have the like power, with the approval of the Local Government Board, of assisting the society as the Local Government Board have under this Act with the approval of the Treasury.

c. 70.

Any expenses incurred by the council under this provision shall be defrayed in the same manner as expenses of the council under Part III of the Housing of 53 & 54 Vict. the Working Classes Act, 1890; and the council shall have the like power to borrow for the purposes of this provision as they have for the purposes of that Part of that Act.

expenses

under Act.

2. (1.) The Treasury shall, as and when they think Payment of fit, issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing incurred produce thereof such sums as may be required for the purpose of meeting any expenditure which is, in the opinion of the Treasury, of a capital nature and which is incurred with the consent or approval of the Treasury by or on behalf of the Local Government Board, or the Commissioners of Works for the purposes of this Act, not exceeding in the aggregate two million pounds; and any expenses incurred for those purposes by the Local Government Board, or the Commissioners of Works, not being, in the opinion of the Treasury, of the nature of capital expenditure, shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament, and any receipts arising in connexion therewith shall be paid into the Exchequer.

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