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Section 21 Interpretation.C2C1

United Kingdom

For the purposes of this Act the expression “local authority” means any person or body of persons who receive or expend the proceeds of any local rate and any other public body which the Local Government Board may determine to be a local authority, but overseers of the poor shall not be included except by direction of that Board:

Provided that where any such authority is F1a local policing body or a police authority it shall not, as such, be deemed, for the purposes of Part I. of this Act, to be a local authority.

  • In England and Wales a teacher, officer, or servant appointed by the managers of a public elementary school not provided by the local education authority shall, and a teacher, officer, or servant of an institution aided by a local education authority out of the proceeds of any rate, may, if that authority think fit, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be an officer or servant of the local education authority concerned.

  • Where the Board of Education certify to the Local Government Board that it is expedient that this Act shall apply to any public educational institution, this Act shall apply thereto, notwithstanding any trust affecting the institution, as if the managers or other governing body of the institution were a local authority, and the teachers, officers and servants of the institution were officers and servants of a local authority.

  • For the purposes of this Act, or for such of them as may be specified by the Local Government Board, service in connection with naval or military operations which that Board consider may properly be treated in the same manner as actual naval or military service shall be deemed to be service with His Majesty’s forces.

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 21 inserted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 64; S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1

F2

S. 21: para. beginning "Except" repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X

F3

Definition repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XI

Modifications

C1

Functions of Board of Education now exercisable by Secretary of State for Education and Science: Education Act 1944 (c. 31), s. 2(1) and S.I. 1964/490

C2

Functions of overseers of the poor now generally exercisable in City of London by Common Council and elsewhere by rating authorities: London Government Act 1899 (c. 14), s. 11(1), City of London (Union of Parishes) Act 1907 (c. cxl), s. 11, Rating and Valuation Act 1925 (c. 90), s. 62(1), S.R. & O. 1927/55 (Rev. XIX, p. 599: 1927, p. 964), London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 63(1) and General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), s. 1(1)