4.—(1) Subject to the general or particular directions of the Minister, the control and management of every pound provided and maintained under this Act by a local authority shall be vested in the county registrar.
(2) The expenses (so far as they are not otherwise provided for by or under this Act) incurred by a county registrar in the control and management of every pound provided and maintained under this Act by a local authority shall be defrayed by the local authority in whose funnctional area such pound is situate and such expenses shall be deemed to be part of the expenses incurred by such local authority in the provision and maintenance of such pound.
