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War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act 1923

13 & 14 Geo. 5 c. 18 · Enacted 18 July 1923 · Extends to United Kingdom

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An Act to enable local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain, repair and protect war memorials vested in them.

[18th July 1923]C1C2C3

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C1

Act extended (S.) with modifications by Local Government Act 1948 (c. 26), s. 133(3)

C2

Councils of administrative counties, boroughs (except those in rural districts), urban districts, rural districts and urban parishes outside Greater London and Isles of Scilly together with municipal corporations of boroughs outside Greater London now abolished and councils of metropolitan counties, non-metropolitan counties and districts constituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), ss. 1, 2, Sch. 1

C3

Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

Contents

  1. 1Expenditure in maintenance, &c., of war memorials.
  2. 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  3. 3Application.
  4. 4Definition.
  5. 5Short title.

1Expenditure in maintenance, &c., of war memorials.C1

A local authority may incur reasonable expenditure in the maintenance, repair and protection of any war memorial within their district F1whether vested in them or not.

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F1

3Application.

The provisions of this Act shall not apply to a war memorial provided or maintained by a local authority in the exercise of any other statutory power.

4Definition.

In this Act the expression “local authority” means the council of a county, . . . F1borough . . . district or parish, and the parish meeting of a rural parish with no parish council.

5Short title.

This Act may be cited as the War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act, 1923.