Vocational Education (Amendment) Act, 1950

Amendment of section 44 of the Principal Act.

3.—(1) The following new subsection shall be inserted in section 44 of the Principal Act—

“(1A) Where the annual scheme prepared by a vocational education committee in respect of any local financial year (being the local financial year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1952, or any subsequent local financial year) provides for an annual local contribution of an amount greater than the annual local contribution demanded by such committee in respect of the immediately preceding local financial year (in this subsection referred to as the previous year) by more than the amount of a rate of one penny in the pound on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of the previous year, then, unless the amount mentioned in such scheme does not exceed the amount of a rate of, in case the rating authority is the council of a county borough or a scheduled urban district, nine pence in the pound or, in case the rating authority is the council of a county, seven pence in the pound on the rateable value of the area of charge at the commencement of the previous year, such committee, when submitting the annual scheme to the Minister, shall also furnish a copy thereof to the rating authority.”

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1951.