Local Government Act, 1933
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Legalisation of certain payments. |
6.—(1) Where a person actually performed and fulfilled the services and duties of an officer or a servant of a local authority while he was, by the operation of section 71 of the Principal Act, not an officer or servant of such local authority or while he was, by reason of a decision of or direction given to such local authority and on account of his political activities, not in receipt of remuneration from such local authority, such local authority or any other local authority to whom the functions, duties, and powers of such first-mentioned local authority have been transferred on the abolition of such first-mentioned local authority may with the sanction of the Minister pay to such person or his personal representative any sum or sums of money by way of remuneration in respect of the period during which such person was so performing and fulfilling the services and duties of such officer or servant, not exceeding in the whole the amount of the remuneration to which such person would have been entitled in respect of such period if he had actually been such officer or servant. | |
(2) Any payment made by a local authority before the passing of this Act which was not lawful at the time when it was made but would have been lawful by virtue of this section if this section had been in force at that time, shall be deemed to have been made under this section and to be and always to have been lawful. |