Section 12 Simplifying mode of giving sanctions, &c.

Notwithstanding any statutory or other provision requiring a sanction, assent, approval, authority or direction of the Local Government Board to be given, altered or varied by order or by instrument under seal, any such sanction, assent, approval, authority or direction may be given, altered or varied in a letter or other writing signed by a secretary or assistant secretary of the Board, and shall be as valid in all respects and shall have the same effect as if it had been given by an order of the Board or by an instrument under the seal of the Board, and for the purposes of the M1Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by any subsequent enactment, such letter or writing shall be deemed to be an order of the Board.

This section shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland.