Local Authorities (Cost of Living) Act, 1940

Local authorities.

1.—For the purposes of this Act every of the following bodies and persons shall be a local authority, that is to say:—

(a) the corporation of a county borough, the council of a county, a borough, or an urban district, a board of guardians, the commissioners of a town, and a port sanitary authority, and

(b) a person appointed by or under statute to perform the functions or any of the functions of any such corporation, council, board, commissioners, or authority, and

(c) a committee or joint committee or a board or joint board (whether incorporated or not incorporated) of or appointed by any one or more of such corporations, councils, boards, commissioners, authorities, or persons, and

(d) a school attendance committee, a vocational education committee, and a committee of agriculture.