{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/26",
  "legislation_title": "Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 (repealed 1.4.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Government contributions towards expenses of local authorities for rural water supplies and sewerage.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to such conditions as the Treasury may determine, the Secretary of State (in this Act referred to as “the Minister”) may, in any case in which it appears to him to be desirable so to do, undertake to make a contribution towards the expenses incurred by a local authority at any time after the passing of this Act—\n(a) in providing a supply, or improving an existing supply, of water in a rural locality; . . .\n2), (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The Minister may withhold, or reduce the amount of, a contribution which he has undertaken to make towards the expenses incurred by a local authority in respect of any works or transaction, if it appears to him either—\n(a) that any of the works have been executed in an unsatisfactory manner; or\n(b) that the effectiveness of any of the works is substantially less than as estimated in the proposals submitted to him by the local authority, and that the difference is due to any default, for which the local authority is responsible, in the formulation of the proposals; or\n(c) that there has been any default in the carrying out of the transaction.\n(5) Any contributions made under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reference to the Secretary of State substituted for reference to the Minister of Health by virtue of S.I. 1951/142 (1951 I, p. 1348), arts. 3, 5(2), Sch. Pt. I, 1951/1900 (1951 I, p. 1347), art. 1, (W.) 1965/319, arts. 2(1), 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and 1970/1681, arts. 2, 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(1)(b) and the proviso repealed so far as they extend to Scotland by S.I. 1986/672, arts. 2, 3(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 1(2)(3) repealed by Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955 (c. 13), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 1(5) substituted by Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1971 (c. 49), s. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 1(6) repealed by Water Act 1973 (c. 37), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 1(7) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (c. 10), Sch. Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1 amended by Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955 (c. 13), s. 1(1)(2): Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955 (c. 13) repealed (E.W.) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), s. 3, Sch. 3 Pt. I (with s. 2, Sch. 2 paras. 10, 14(1), 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/26/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:44.672002+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}