Section 3 †Provision by the Assistance Board of accommodation in camps.C1C2X1

F1The Supplementary Benefits Commission may provide accommodation in camps, hostels or other establishments for persons in Great Britain being of any of the categories specified in subsection (2) of the last preceding section, or dependants of persons of any of those categories or of members of any of the Polish resettlement forces serving therewith, or persons formerly dependent on a person who was of any of those categories, or was such a member of any of those forces, at that former time.

The Commission may make provision for meeting the needs (F2other than medical, surgical, optical, aural or dental needs, or needs as to education), and for promoting the welfare, of persons for whom accommodation is provided under this section, and may make such provision in such manner as appears to them most convenient, whether by themselves providing goods or services, by making payments to others for the provision thereof, . . . F3, or partly in one of those ways and partly in F4the other.

The Commission may make arrangements with any government department or other authority or person for the provision of benefits under this section, on behalf and at the expense of the Minister of Social Security, by that authority or person.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Minister may from time to time fix for benefits provided under this section such scales of charges applicable in different circumstances as may appear to the Minister, with the approval of the Treasury, to be appropriate, and the Commission may from time to time require payments for such benefits to be made in accordance with the provisions of Part II of the Schedule to this Act.

F7sections 20 and 21 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 shall apply as respects benefit under this section with the substitution, for references to expenditure incurred under that Act of references to expenditure incurred under this Act, and for references to any sum recoverable, or any benefit or liability, under that Act of references to any sum recoverable, or any benefit or liability, under this Act.

F8The Commission shall have, in relation to a person for whom they have power to provide accommodation under this section the like right to complain to a magistrates’ court as is conferred by F9section 18 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 in relation to a person whose requirements are or are included in those of a person to whom benefit under that Act is paid or by whom such benefit is claimed, and the powers of the court under that section shall be exercisable on such complaint.

The provisions of F11section 26(3)(a) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 shall apply to any proceedings under this section or under Part II of the Schedule to this Act.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14