Vocational Education Act, 1930

Transfer of debts and liabilities to vocational education committees.

97.—(1) Upon the appointed day, every debt and other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which, immediately before the appointed day, is owing and unpaid or has been incurred and is undischarged by a local authority or a committee appointed under the Act of 1889 and the Act of 1899 or either of those Acts by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly and is so owing or has been so incurred in relation to or for the purposes of functions, powers, and duties transferred by this Part of this Act shall, save as is hereinafter otherwise provided, become and be the debt or liability of the vocational education committee to which such functions, powers, and duties are so transferred and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered from or enforced against such committee accordingly.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-section, every pension, superannuation allowance, or gratuity which, immediately before the appointed day, is or has become payable by a local authority or two or more local authorities jointly to a person on account of his having been an officer of such local authority or authorities or of a committee appointed under the Act of 1889 and the Act of 1899 or either of those Acts by such local authority or local authorities and having been employed by such authority, authorities, or committee wholly or partly in relation to functions, powers, or duties transferred by this Part of this Act shall, on and after the appointed day, be raised and paid by the same local authority or authorities and in the same manner as the same would have been required to be raised and paid if this Act had not been passed.