Paragraph 30

In subsection (1) of section ten (which provides for the apportionment of expenses of a river board among the councils of the several counties and county boroughs wholly or pardy included in the river board area on the basis of the totals of the rateable values of hereditaments in that area) for the words 'from " on the basis " to " river board area " there shall be substituted the words

“on the basis of the product, estimated in such manner as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food may direct, of a rate of one penny in the pound for so much of the respective areas of those councils as is situated within the river board area”.

For subsection (4) of that section there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

“(4)

The councils of the several counties and county boroughs wholly or partly included in a river board area shall from time to time, if and when so required by the river board, furnish to the board a statement of the product, estimated in such manner as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food may direct, of a rate of a penny in the pound for so much of the respective areas of those councils as is situated within the river board area”.