Mental Treatment Act, 1945

PART VI.

Financial Provisions Relating to Mental Hospital Authorities.

Expenses of mental hospital authorities.

43.—(1) Where a mental hospital district consists of an administrative county, the expenses incurred by the mental hospital authority for the district shall be defrayed by that authority and shall be raised by means of the poor rate equally over the whole of such county.

(2) Where a mental hospital district consists of a county borough, the expenses incurred by the mental hospital authority for the district shall be defrayed by that authority.

(3) Where a mental hospital district consists of two or more administrative counties, the sum required to defray the expenses incurred by the mental hospital authority for the district during every year ending on the 31st day of March shall be supplied by the councils of the counties severally in proportion to the net cost of maintenance, determined by the prescribed method, of the chargeable patients from their respective functional areas maintained by the mental hospital authority during such year, and the proportionate part of that sum of each such council of a county shall be raised by means of the poor rate equally over the whole of the county.

(4) Where a mental hospital district consists of a county borough and one or more administrative counties, the sum required to defray the expenses incurred by the mental hospital authority for the district during every year ending on the 31st day of March shall be supplied by the corporation of such borough and the council of such county or the councils of such counties severally in proportion to the net cost of maintenance, determined by the prescribed method, of the chargeable patients from their respective functional areas maintained by the mental hospital authority during such year, and the proportionate part of that sum of such council of a county or of each such council of a county shall be raised by means of the poor rate equally over the whole of the county.

(5) All moneys required by this section to be supplied by the council of a county or the corporation of a county borough shall be supplied on demand made by the relevant joint board in the prescribed form and manner and at the prescribed time.