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A.D. 1933.

PART VI. -cont.

2 & 3 Geo. 5.

C. CV.

19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 17.

Modifica-

tions of last foregoing section as to City of London.

[CH. 12.]

Children and

Young Persons Act, 1933.

[23 GEO. 5.]

sections one hundred and seventy-five to one hundred and seventy-eight of that Act shall apply accordingly.

(6) A local authority may borrow for the purposes of this Act-

(a) in the case of the London County Council, under and in accordance with the London County Council (Finance Consolidation) Act, 1912, as amended by any subsequent enactment, and in the case of any other county council, under and in accordance with section sixty-nine of the Local Government Act, 1888, as amended by the Local Government Act, 1929; and (b) in the case of the council of a county borough or urban district, as for the purposes of the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1926.

(7) Subject to the provisions of section four of the Education Act, 1921 (which require certain matters to be referred to education committees) a local authority may refer to a committee appointed for the purposes of this Act, or to any committee appointed for the purposes of any other Act, any matter relating to the exercise by the authority of any of their powers under this Act and may delegate any of the said powers (other than any power to borrow money) to any such committee.

(8) A local authority, or a committee to whom any powers of a local authority under this Act have been delegated, may by resolution empower the clerk or the chief education officer of the authority to exercise in the name of the authority in any case which appears to him to be one of urgency any powers of the authority or, as the case may be, of the committee with respect to the institution of proceedings under this Act.

97. The last foregoing section shall, in its application to the City of London, have effect subject to the modifi- cations that the powers and duties of a local authority under this Act as respects young persons, and as respects street trading and employment, shall be powers and duties of the Common Council and any expenses of the Common Council shall be defrayed out of the general rate :

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