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Allotments,

360 Sect.

6.

Under

expenses incurred by them in respect of such land, are to be paid to the district council or parish council as the case may be (d).

Allotments Sub-Sect. Transfer of

powers etc. under Allotments Acts.

to Parlia-

ment.

Miscellaneous.

791. The powers of the Local Government Board under the Allotments Acts, except such of those powers as relate to the finance of local authorities, will be transferred to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries as from January 1, 1908, and if any question arises as to whether any power is a power which is so transferred the question must be determined by the Local Government Board, whose decision will be final

Annual report

6.

(e).

792. The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries must make an annual report to Parliament of their proceedings, and of the proceedings of the Small Holdings Commissioners under the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907, and also of the proceedings of the several county, borough, district, and parish councils under the Allotments Acts, 1887 to 1907, and for that purpose every council must, before such date in every year as the Board may fix, send to the Board a report of their proceedings under the Acts during the preceding year (/).

Application of Acts in

London.

Co-operative societies.

793. The powers conferred on sanitary authorities by the Allotments Acts, 1887 to 1907, may in London be exercised by the London County Council, and the Acts will apply accordingly, except that, subject to the provisions of the Act of 1907, the expenses must be defrayed, and money borrowed, under and in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1888 (g). 794. A county council may promote the formation or extension of, and may, under certain conditions, assist financially, societies on a co-operative basis, having for their object or one of their objects the provision or the profitable working of allotments, whether in relation to the purchase of requisites, the sale of produce, credit banking or insurance or otherwise, and may employ as their agents for the purpose any society having as its object or one of its objects the promotion of co-operation in connection with the cultivation of

Grants by county council.

allotments (li). With the consent of the Local Government Board, and subject to regulations to be made by that Board, a county council may, for the purpose of assisting a society, make grants or advances to the society, or guarantee advances made to the society, upon such terms and conditions as to rate of interest and repayment or otherwise, and on such security, as the county council think fit, and the making of such grants or advances will be a purpose for (d)

Allotments Act, 1890 (53

&

54yict.

c.

65),

s.

6

(3),

as

amended by the Act

of 1907.

Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 54), s. 20 (1). (/) Ihid., s. 44. As the Act does not come into operation until January 1, 1908, it follows that no report can be required before January, 1909. As to these provisions, see titles Local Government and {g) Ibid., s. 25. -M] E T H 0 1* O Ij I (A) Small koldings and Allotments Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 54), s. 39 (1), (4). (e)