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A local authority may contribute towards expenses incurred by another local authority, whether
under this or any other Act, or by a voluntary organisation, in providing or maintaining within
the area of the contributing authority, or on a site where it will benefit any of the inhabitants
of that area, anything mentioned in Section 4 (1), or a swimming bath or bathing place.
Section 5 provides for the compulsory purchase of land for the purposes mentioned in
section 4. Expenditure incurred for these purposes is to be defrayed by a metropolitan
borough council out of a general rate, and money may be borrowed therefor.
Under section 7 the Hoard of Education may provide, maintain and aid a National
College of Physical Training for England and Wales, or more than one such College, and may
make such provision with respect to the management thereof as they think proper.
Section 8 provides that all expenses incurred by the Board of Education for the
purposes of the Act, including the amount, of any grant paid or payable, shall be defrayed out
of moneys provided by Parliament. The Board are empowered, subject to the approval of the
Treasury, to (i) make such payments in respect of the administrative expenses of the National
Council, of committees thereof, and of the grants committee, and in respect of allowances to
members of the National Council, members of committees thereof and members of the grants
committee ; (ii) pay such remuneration to the chairman of the grants committee ; and (iii) after
consultation with the grants committee, make such payments in respect of the administrative
expenses of, and in respect of allowances to members of, a local committee and any subcommittee
thereof.
The Minister of Health and the President of the Board of Education have issued a
memorandum on the powers of local authorities under the Act. It is stated therein that the
National Advisory Council and the Grants Committee were constituted on the 1st March, 1937,
and that steps are now being taken to set up the local area committees, which will include
among their members representatives of local authorities. .Reference is made inter alia to the
extension of the existing power of providing community centres for municipal housing estates
so as to enable these centres to be provided in any part of the authority's area. In order to
qualify for grant under the new Act facilities must be provided in the centre for physical
training and recreation. As regards the provision of swimming baths and pools it is mentioned
that certain questions will call for consideration under the new development which may be
expected, e.g. :—(a) arrangements for combining other forms of physical training and
recreation with covered swimming baths, and (hi the use of swimming baths during the winter
months. The memorandum also states that if the wide powers conferred by the Act are to be
used to the greatest advantage, close co-operation between different local authorities and voluntary
organisations is essential. [Extract from Report of Town Clerk.]
Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation) Act, 1937.
Section 1 provides that, with a view to protecting persons from danger in connection
with the fumigation of premises and articles (including any ship, vehicle or aircraft) with
hydrogen cyanide, the Secretary of State may make regulations with respect to such fumigation
and, without prejudice to the generality of this provision, the regulations may (a)
regulate the manner in which the hydrogen cyanide is to be generated and require the
admixture therewith of any substance; (h) prohibit the carrying out of any such fumigation
except by or under the supervision of persons having such training or experience as may be
specified in the regulations and by such numbers of persons as may be so specified; (c)
regulate the disposal of the residues of any substances used in the fumigation; and (c/) for
the purpose of preventing injurious effects resulting from the fumigation, impose temporary
restrictions upon the use of any premises or article, and require such tests as may be specified
in the regulations to be carried out after the fumigation. The regulations may distinguish
between different classes of fumigation, according to the method or circumstances thereof or