Catalogue description Ministry of Health: Poor Law Division: Local Government Act 1929, Administrative Schemes and Regulations

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Reference: MH 54
Title: Ministry of Health: Poor Law Division: Local Government Act 1929, Administrative Schemes and Regulations
Description:

This series contains copies of administrative schemes submitted by council of counties and county boroughs for discharging functions transferred from poor law authorities under the Local Government Act 1929. The series also includes schemes (under s.63 of the Act) and amending schemes (under s.185(6)) of the Public Health Act 1936) relating to the provision of hospital accommodation for infectious diseases; and regulations for domiciliary assistance to blind persons under s.2 of the Blind Persons Act 1920 drawn up by councils pursuant to declarations made in their administrative schemes.

Date: 1929-1947
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Health, Poor Law Division, 1919-1947

Physical description: 7 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Local Government Act, 1929 (19 and 20 Geo. 5, c.17) was passed to amend the law relating to the administration of poor relief, registration of births, deaths and marriages, highways, town planning and local government. This Act inter alia transferred the functions of the former Poor Law Guardians to county and county borough councils; and S.4 required the latter to prepare and submit to the Minister of Health administrative schemes of the arrangements proposed to be made for discharging the functions thus transferred.

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