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Temporary entension of charges on the Metropolitan Poor Fund. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 18.
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1.—(1) Subsection (3) of section one of the Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1870 (which relates to repayments out of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund in respect of the maintenance of paupers in workhouses or asylums), shall, as respects the half-year current at the passing of this Act and any subsequent half-year ending before the expiration of this section, have effect as though the words “at the rate of one shilling and three-pence per day” were substituted for the words “at the rate of fivepence per day”.
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(2) In respect of the same half years there shall be included amongst the expenses to be repaid out of the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund the expenses incurred in respect of out-door relief, so however that no repayment shall be made in respect of relief granted in excess of such cale or in contravention of such conditions as shall be prescribed by regulations of the Minister of Health. Such scale and regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
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The power of the Minister of Health to make such regulations shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers possessed by him of making rules, orders, or regulations respecting the grant of out-door relief.
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(3) Where the Minister of Health is satisfied that proper investigation has not been made within a reasonable time of the granting of out-door relief, no repayment shall be made in respect of that relief.
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(4) This section shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and no longer, but the expiration of this section shall not affect any liability to make contributions or right to be repaid expenses in respect of any half-year ending before such expiration.
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