No. 91/1927:

THE PUBLIC BODIES ORDER, 1927.

THE PUBLIC BODIES ORDER, 1927.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

GENERAL ORDER.

IN PURSUANCE of the powers vested in me by the Local Government Acts, 1925 and 1927, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, do order, and it is hereby ordered as follows :—

1. (1) This Order may be referred to as " The Public Bodies Order, 1927. "

(2) From and after the date of this Order the Public Bodies (Temporary Provisions) Order, 1927 (with the exception of paragraph (c) of Article 5) shall have full force and effect as though no provision were contained therein limiting its operation to the 30th September, 1927.

(3) The Public Bodies Order, 1925, the Public Bodies (Temporary Provisions) Order, 1927, and this Order shall be read as one Order, and may be referred to collectively as " the Public Bodies Orders, 1925 to 1927. "

2. In the Principal Order, after Article 64, there shall be inserted the following new article :—

Article 64a.—(1) Immediately after the close of each local financial year the Secretary shall obtain full particulars of all sums due and remaining unpaid at the close of the year for work done on or goods supplied for the roads.

(2) Every such sum due and remaining unpaid at the close of a local financial year shall for the purposes of this Order, be deemed to have been expended on the roads during such year, and so far as possible arrangements shall be made to pay the same during the first month of the ensuing year.

(3) Every such sum the liability for which has been incurred by the Council in providing stocks of materials or in providing machinery, horses, carts or implements, shall be entered by way of charge in the Materials Expense Account or in the Machinery Expense Account, as the case may require. Every other such sum shall be entered in the Roads Account in the Ledger on the debit side, and, where the nature of the liability so permits, shall also be entered in a separate column in the Summary of Road Expenditure for the year (Form 24), as an expenditure on a road or section, or group of roads or sections, or work of improvement.

(4) The totals of the sums entered on the debit side of the Roads Account and by way of charge in the Materials Expense Account and the Machinery Expense Account under this article, shall be transferred to the credit side of an Unpaid Road Bills Account which shall be closed by a balance, being the total amount of such sums, which balance shall be carried to the Statement of Balances in the Abstract of Accounts (Form 25). In the succeeding year, when such sums are paid, they shall be posted from the Financial Statement Book of Expenditure to debit of the new Unpaid Road Bills Account, thus discharging the balance carried over from the previous account.

(5) The particulars of the sums due for goods supplied shall be obtained from the persons supplying the goods and from the records of the Council. The particulars of the sums due for work done on the roads shall be supplied by the County Surveyor, who for that purpose shall, as soon as possible, but not later than one fortnight after the beginning of every local financial year, ascertain and certify to the Secretary on Form 22 what payments (if any) can be properly made in respect of work done on roads during the previous local financial year under any contract. The amount of every payment so certified shall be treated by the Secretary as a sum due at the close of the previous financial year.

3. Each of the forms in the First Schedule hereto shall be substituted for and used for the same purposes as the form bearing the same number in the Schedule to the Principal Order.

4. The Certificates set forth in the Second Schedule hereto shall appear at the foot of Form 22 in the Schedule to the Principal Order, and shall be completed by the persons specified in the said Schedule before any payments are made in pursuance of the said Form 22.

5. Form 24 of the Schedule to the Principal Order shall be amended by the insertion between columns (3) and (4) of a new column, headed " Unpaid Road Bills."

6. Form 26 of the Schedule to the Principal Order shall be amended by the omission of Table (b).

7. (1) In Table (a) of Form 33 of the Schedule to the Principal Order, the cash assets and liabilities of a board of health shall be shown in the order and according to the heads indicated in the Revenue Account in the Abstract (Form 32) prescribed by this Order, provided, however, as follows :—

(a) Details of the assets and liabilities in respect of Health District Charges (General) and Joint District Charges shall be shown under the heads set forth in Tables A (1) and A. (2) respectively of the said Form 32.

(b) Where details of the receipts and expenditure in respect of any separate charge are shown in an additional table in the said Form 32, details of the assets and liabilities in respect of such separate charge shall be shown under the same heads.

(c) Only the total assets and liabilities in respect of all the separate charges other than these (if any) to which paragraph (b) applies, and under the heads indicated in the said Revenue Account, need be shown.

(2) Form 33 of the Principal Order shall be amended in accordance with this Article.

Given under My Seal of Office this Thirteenth day of October in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-seven.

RISTEARD UA MAOLCHATHA,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Forms to be substituted for the forms in the Public Bodies Order, 1925.

(To be prepared by the Secretary.)

County of......................................................

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS showing Receipts and Expenditure, with a General Statement of Balances. Half-year ended the last day of................................19......

TABLE A.—ROADS ACCOUNT.

TABLE B.—COUNTY SERVICES ACCOUNT.

FORM 25—Continued

TABLE C.—POOR RELIEF ACCOUNT.

TABLE D.—BOARD OF HEALTH CHARGES ACCOUNT.

FORM 25—Continued

TABLE E.—URBAN DISTRICTS ACCOUNT.

FORM 25—Continued.

TABLE F.—SEPARATE CHARGES ACCOUNT.

FORM 25—Continued.

TABLE G. —TABLE OF THE COLLECTION OF POOR RATE.

FORM 25—Continued

TABLE H.—GENERAL SUMMARY OF REVENUE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.

FORM 25—continued.

TABLE J.—LOANS RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.

TABLE K.—CAPITAL INDEBTEDNESS ACCOUNT.

FORM 25—Continued.

STATEMENT OF BALANCES AT THE CLOSE OF THE HALF-YEAR.

CERTIFICATE OF THE SECRETARY.

I certify that the foregoing figures are correctly abstracted from the Books and Accounts of the County Council.

CERTIFICATE OF THE AUDITOR.

I certify the foregoing to be a true Abstract from the Books and Accounts of this County Council for the Half-year ended the last day of.........................................................19............

REVENUE ACCOUNT.

DETAILS OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.

(Other than Repayment of Loans).

TABLE A (I).—HEALTH DISTRICT CHARGES (GENERAL).

TABLE A (II).—JOINT DISTRICT CHARGES.

NOTE,—An additional Table giving details of the Receipts applicable to and Expenditure on any Separate Charge may, and shall if the Auditor so directs, be inserted here.

FORM 32—Continued.

TABLE B (I).—EXPENDITURE UNDER TUBERCULOSIS ACTS.

TABLE B (II).—EXPENDITURE UNDER LABOURER'S ACTS.

FORM 32—Continued.

TABLE B. (III).—ABSTRACT OF COTTAGE RENT COLLECTION AND OF RENT COLLECTION CASH ACCOUNT.

LOANS RECEIPT AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT.

FORM 32—Continued.

CAPITAL INDEBTEDNESS ACCOUNT.

FORM 32—Continued.

STATEMENT OF BALANCES at the Close of the Half-year.

CERTIFICATE OF THE SECRETARY.

I hereby certify that the foregoing figures are correctly abstracted from the Books and Accounts.

CERTIFICATE OF THE AUDITOR.

I certify the foregoing to be a true Statement from the Books and Accounts for the Half-year ended the last day of................................................19..............

FORM 40.

(ARTICLE 76).

COUNTY COUNCILS AND BOARDS OF HEALTH.

ANNUAL ESTIMATE AND DEMAND BY BOARD OF HEALTH.

(To be Prepared by the Secretary to the Board.)

The above-named Board hereby notify the............................................ County Council that the total amount of moneys required by them to meet their expenses (other than those incurred under the County Scheme)* during the financial year ending the 31st day of March, 19......is estimated to be £........................ Of the said amount £........................is required for the repayment of Loans, and £........................for expenses other than the repayment of Loans.

Tables are annexed giving details of the Board's estimated Revenue and Expenditure, and the calculation of the amount required as aforesaid, and indicating the areas on which the various portions of the said amount are to be charged.

The Board hereby demand that the said amount shall be supplied to them by the County Council by transferring sums out of the County Fund to the credit of the District Fund in the............................................................ ............................................................ ................

Branch of the............................................................ ............Bank being the Treasurer of the Board, as follows :—

(a) at the first meeting of the Council held in each quarter of the said financial year, a sum equal to one-fourth of the portion of the said amount required for expenses other than repayment of Loans ;

(b) at the first meeting of the Council held in each of the first and third quarters of the said financial year, a sum equal to one-half of the portion of the said amount required for the repayment of Loans.

Signed by order and on behalf of the Board.

Dated this............day of....................................19.....

* NOTE.—The words in brackets may be omitted in the case of a Board of Public Health.

FORM 40—Continued.

TABLE I.—CALCULATION OF THE AMOUNT DEMANDED.

FORM 40—Continued.

DETAILS OF ESTIMATED REVENUE EXPENDITURE.

(Other than Repayment of Loans).

County of................................................ Urban District of.............................................

The County Council hereby transmit to the Council of the above-named Urban District the annexed Table showing the apportionment against the Urban District of sums required to meet the Estimated Expenditure of the County Council for or on behalf of the Urban District Council in the financial year ending the 31st day of March, 19...... The net sum required from the Urban District Council is the sum of £.................. Particulars of the amounts required for the various services are shown at the foot of this demand.

The County Council hereby demand that the above first-mentioned sum of..............................pounds shall be supplied to them by the said Urban District Council, as follows :—

By transferring out of the Urban District Fund to the credit of the County Fund in the............................................................ Branch of the .....................................................Bank (being the Treasurer of the County Council) during each Quarter of the said financial year, a sum equal to one-fourth part of the sum hereinbefore demanded, such transfers to be made on or before the 1st day of June, September, December and March respectively.

PARTICULARS OF THE AMOUNTS DEMANDED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

CERTIFICATES TO BE INSERTED AT THE FOOT OF FORM 22.

I.—CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY.

I hereby certify that the several particulars contained in columns (1) to (5) inclusive have been compiled by me from the records of the Council and are correct.

Dated this   day of       19  .

Signed,............................................................ ........

County Secretary.

II.—CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY SURVEYOR.

I hereby certify that the several particulars contained in columns (6), (7) and (8) inclusive are correct and that the payments recommended by me in column (8) may properly be made.

Dated this    day of      19  .

Signed,............................................................ ......

County Surveyor.

III. —CERTIFICATE OF CHAIRMAN.

The foregoing payments, having been examined and reported on by the Finance Committee, were (subject to any modifications noted in Column (12)) this day ordered to be made.

Dated this   day of       19  .

Signed............................................................ .........

Presiding Chairman.

Countersigned,.........................................................

Secretary.