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Local Government Grants (Social Need) Act 1969 Provision for grants. 1 1 The Secretary of State may out of moneys provided by Parliament pay grants, of such amounts as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine, to local authorities who in his opinion are required in the exercise of any of their functions to incur expenditure by reason of the existence in any urban area of special social need. 2 Grants under this section may be paid at such times, subject to such conditions and on account of such expenditure (for the year 1968-69 or any later year) as the Secretary of State may determine. 3 The expressions “ local authority ” and “ year ” have the same meaning in this section, in its application to England and Wales, as they have for purposes of the Local Government Act 1966 by virtue of section 41 of that Act and, in its application to Scotland, as they have for purposes of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 by virtue of section 46 of that Act except that in the application of this section to England and Wales “local authority” shall also include a fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, the London Fire Commissioner a police and crime commissioner, the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime , a joint authority established by Part 4 of the Local Government Act 1985, an economic prosperity board established under section 88 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 , a combined authority established under section 103 of that Act and a combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 . Short title, and extent. 2 1 This Act may be cited as the Local Government Grants (Social Need) Act 1969. 2 This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
Architects Registration (Amendment) Act 1969 (repealed 18.9.1997) Establishment of Architects’ Registration Council Education Fund. 1 1 There shall be constituted a fund, to be known as the Architects’ Registration Council Education Fund, which, together with its income, shall be applied for the purposes authorised in subsection (4) of this section in such manner and upon such conditions and at such times as the Council may from time to time determine and pending such application may be invested in any manner authorised by the law of any part of the United Kingdom for the investment of trust property. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The purposes authorised for the application of the Architects’ Registration Council Education Fund and its income are:— a the provision of scholarships and grants for the assistance of students in architecture whose means appear to the Council to be insufficient to enable them to pursue their studies and the provision for the purpose of advancing education in architecture of grants for architects and other persons; b the support and furtherance of education and research in architecture: Provided that such research shall consist of work designed to improve the general practice of architecture or of historical research designed to improve the education of architects; c the dissemination of teaching or the results of research concerning architecture. 5 In making grants under paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of this section to persons other than students in architecture regard may be had to their means as well as in making grants to students. 6 In this section “ architecture ” includes all subjects related to architecture or affecting the practice thereof. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Interpretation. 3 In this Act— “ the Act of 1931 ” means the Architects (Registration) Act 1931 as amended by the Architects Registration Act 1938; “ the Council ” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1931. Short title, citation and extent. 4 1 This Act may be cited as the Architects Registration (Amendment) Act 1969, and the Act of 1931 and the Architects Registration Act 1938 and this Act may be cited together as the Architects Registration Acts 1931 to 1969. 2 It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland, . . .
Late Night Refreshment Houses Act 1969 (repealed) Meaning of “late night refreshment house”. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Requirement of licence to keep late night refreshment house. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annual duty on licence, and power to vary. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reduced duty on beginner’s part-year licence. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Date of licence and period of validity. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Local register of licences. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power of licensing authority to impose conditions as to opening after 11 p.m. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conditions of licence as to charges and touting. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Illegal and disorderly conduct. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power of constable to enter and keep order. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Punishment of offences. 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Transitional provisions and saving. 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repeals. 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Citation, commencement and extent. 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Justices of the Peace Act 1968 Appointment of justices, oaths of office, etc. 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 It is hereby declared that any court of record having a criminal jurisdiction has, as ancillary to that jurisdiction, the power to bind over to keep the peace, and power to bind over to be of good behaviour, a person who or whose case is before the court, by requiring him to enter into his own recognisances or to find sureties or both, and committing him to prison if he does not comply . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Provisions applying to Scotland. 6 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; but otherwise the foregoing sections of this Act shall not extend to Scotland. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commencement, and power to provide for transitional matters. 7 1 The provisions of section 1 of this Act and Schedules 1 to 3 shall not come into force until such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint, and a different day may be appointed for different provisions or for different purposes of the same provision. 2 An Order in Council under subsection (1) above may include such provision as appears to Her Majesty to be expedient for supplementing, as regards transitional matters, the provisions of this Act . . . and any provision included in an Order in Council by virtue of this subsection may be varied or revoked by a further Order in Council. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The provisions of section 4 of this Act shall not come into force until such day as the Secretary of State may by order (to be made by statutory instrument) appoint, and a different day may be appointed for Scotland from the day appointed for England and Wales. 5 Any statutory instrument containing an Order in Council or order under this section shall be laid before Parliament after being made. Supplementary. 8 1 This Act may be cited as the Justices of the Peace Act 1968. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland, . . .
Swaziland Independence Act 1968 Fully responsible status of Swaziland. 1 On 6th September 1968 (in this Act referred to as “ the appointed day ”) Swaziland shall cease to be a protected state; and on and after that day Her Majesty shall have no jurisdiction over Swaziland. Operation of existing law. 2 1 Subject to the following provisions of this Act, on and after the appointed day all law which, whether being a rule of law or a provision of an Act of Parliament or of any other enactment or instrument whatsoever, is in force on that day or has been passed or made before that day and comes into force thereafter, shall, unless and until provision to the contrary is made by Parliament or some other authority having power in that behalf, have the same operation in relation to Swaziland, and persons and things belonging to or connected with Swaziland, as it would have apart from this subsection if there had been no change in the status of Swaziland on the appointed day. 2 Part I of the Schedule to this Act (which relates to enactments applicable to Commonwealth countries having fully responsible status) and Part II of that Schedule (which relates to enactments excepted from the operation of the preceding subsection) shall have effect on and after the appointed day in relation to the enactments therein mentioned; but that Schedule shall not extend to Swaziland as part of its law. 3 Subsection (1) of this section applies to law of, or of any part of, the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and, in relation only to any enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order in Council made by virtue of any such enactment whereby any such enactment applies in relation to Swaziland, to law of any other country or territory to which that enactment or Order extends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Interpretation. 7 1 In this Act, and in any amendment made by this Act in any other enactment, “ Swaziland ” means the territory which immediately before the appointed day constitutes the Kingdom of Swaziland. 2 References in this Act to any enactment are references to that enactment as amended or extended by or under any other enactment. Short title. 8 This Act may be cited as the Swaziland Independence Act 1968.
Highlands and Islands Development (Scotland) Act 1968 (repealed) Power of Board to form, promote and acquire shares in certain companies. 1 1 The powers of the Board under section 6 of the principal Act (carrying on of business) shall include power— a to form or promote, or join with any other person in forming or promoting a company; b to subscribe for or (with the consent of the company concerned) otherwise to acquire by agreement the shares or stock or any part of the shares or stock of a company; c to hold any shares or stock so acquired; d to dispose of the whole or any part of any holding of shares or stock so acquired. 2 The powers specified in the foregoing subsection shall be exercised only with the approval of the Secretary of State and the Treasury, and the powers specified in paragraphs ( a ), ( b ) and ( c ) of that subsection shall be so exercised only in relation to a company which is formed to carry on or carries on or proposes to carry on a business or undertaking which in the opinion of the Board will contribute to the economic or social development of the Highlands and Islands. Further powers of Board relating to loans and other financial assistance to certain companies. 2 1 Conditions imposed by the Board under section 8(2) of the principal Act on making a loan under that section to a company may include conditions providing for the indebtedness to the Board to be discharged wholly or in part by the issue to the Board of shares or stock in the company. 2 Assistance by the Board under the said section 8 to a company may, instead of or as well as assistance by way of grant or loan, consist of assistance by subscribing for or otherwise acquiring shares or stock in the company, and the Board on giving such assistance may impose such conditions as they think fit. 3 In accordance with any such arrangements as are mentioned in the said section 8, the Board may hold or dispose of any shares or stock acquired by the Board as mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) above, but any shares or stock so acquired shall be held by them only so long as the company concerned carries on or proposes to carry on any such undertaking or activity as is mentioned in the said section 8(1). Interpretation. 3 In this Act— “ the Board ” means the Highlands and Islands Development Board; “ Highlands and Islands ” has the same meaning as in the principal Act; “ the principal Act ” means the Highlands and Islands Development (Scotland) Act 1965. Citation and extent. 4 1 This Act may be cited as the Highlands and Islands Development (Scotland) Act 1968, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Highlands and Islands Development (Scotland) Acts 1965 and 1968. 2 This Act shall extend to Scotland only.
Hearing Aid Council Act 1968 (repealed) Hearing Aid Council. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Registers of persons selling hearing aids. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Offences by unregistered persons. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Form and keeping of registers required by s. 2. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preliminary investigation of disciplinary cases. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Disciplinary Committee. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erasure from the registers for crime, misconduct, et ceteralaetc. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restoration to the registers. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Appeals. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Procedure of Disciplinary Committee. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assessors to Disciplinary Committee. 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expenses, receipts and accounts of the Council. 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exercise of power to make or approve certain rules. 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation. 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title, extent and commencement. 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Maintenance Orders Act 1968 Increase of maximum payments for children. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supplementary. 2 Any order made by a magistrates’ court before the date of the commencement of this Act may be varied so as to include, from the date of the variation, provision for the payment of such increased sums as would have been lawful if the order had been made after the first mentioned date. Short title, extent, commencement and repeal. 3 1 This Act may be cited as the Maintenance Orders Act 1968. 2 This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland. 3 This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Northern Ireland and Isle of Man shares of revenue from continental shelf. 2 1 For any financial year in which the proceeds from petroleum licences granted for the continental shelf exceed the expenses of administration the Minister of Power shall out of moneys provided by Parliament make payments to the Government of Northern Ireland and the Government of the Isle of Man of amounts equal respectively to the Northern Ireland share and the Isle of Man share of the balance, calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this section. 2 Where for any financial year the expenses of administration exceed those proceeds, both shall be carried forward and treated for the purposes of this section as expenses and proceeds of the following year. 3 For the purposes of this section the Northern Ireland share and the Isle of Man share of the balance calculated for any financial year shall be taken respectively to be the amounts which bear to the whole of that balance the same proportion as the population of Northern Ireland or, as the case may be, the Isle of Man, bears to the total population of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man, as determined by the last census taken before the end of the financial year under the Census Act 1920 or any corresponding enactment in force in Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man. 4 For the purposes of this section the expenses of administration for a financial year shall be taken to be so much of the expenses incurred by any government department in that year as, in the opinion of the Treasury, is properly attributable to the exercise of the Secretary of State’s functions under section 1 of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 and shall include an amount representing liability in respect of benefits that may become payable under the Superannuation Act 1965 in respect of persons employed in that year in connection with that Act. 5 In this section “ petroleum licences granted for the continental shelf ” means licences granted under section 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998 by virtue of subsection (2)(b) of that section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Short title. 4 This Act may be cited as the Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1968.
Wills Act 1968 Restriction of operation of Wills Act 1837, s. 15. 1 1 For the purposes of section 15 of the Wills Act 1837 (avoidance of gifts to attesting witnesses and their spouses) the attestation of a will by a person to whom or to whose spouse there is given or made any such disposition as is described in that section shall be disregarded if the will is duly executed without his attestation and without that of any other such person. 2 This section applies to the will of any person dying after the passing of this Act, whether executed before or after the passing of this Act. Short title and extent. 2 1 This Act may be cited as the Wills Act 1968. 2 This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Commonwealth Telecommunications Act 1968 Legal capacity of Commonwealth Telecommunications Bureau. 1 The Commonwealth Telecommunications Bureau to be established in pursuance of the recommendations of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference held in London in March 1966 shall have the legal capacity of a body corporate. Repeal of provisions relating to Commonwealth Telecommunications Board. 2 As from such date as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint, not being earlier than the date of the termination of thr Commonwealth Telegraphs Agreements made respectively on 11th May 1948 and on 25th July 1963, the following provisions are hereby repealed, namely— a in the Commonwealth Telegraphs Act 1949, sections 1 and 2 and Schedule 1 (which relate to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board established in pursuance of those agreements); b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title. 3 This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Telecommunications Act 1968.
Legitimation (Scotland) Act 1968 (repealed) Requirements and effects of legitimation. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scope of rights and obligations arising on legitimation. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rights and obligations arising where parents of deceased illegitimate person marry. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legitimation of certain persons who were not legitimated by the marriage of their parents, et ceteralaetc. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provisions relating to recognition of foreign legitimation. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Additional provisions where legitimated person had previously been adopted by one or both parents. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Savings. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interpretation. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short title, extent and commencement. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Compensation to civil defence employees for loss of employment etc. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increase of fees etc. 5 1 With a view to securing from the fees, charges or other payments required or regulated by the enactments mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 3 to this Act a net return corresponding more nearly with the cost of the matters for which they are payable, or to dispensing with payments from which a net return cannot reasonably be expected, those enactments may be amended by an order made by the Minister specified in relation to the enactment in question in column 2 of the Schedule, so as to vary any sum specified by the enactment as the amount or maximum amount of any payment, or so as to provide that any sum payable under the enactment shall cease to be payable. 2 The powers conferred by subsection (1) above in relation to any enactment shall be exercisable in relation to that enactment as applied by any other enactment, and shall include power— a to make different provision for different cases, or provision limited to specified cases; and b to repeal any enactment superseded by the exercise of the powers (including any enactment amending an enactment mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Act); and c to vary or revoke any previous order under subsection (1) above. 3 The power to make orders under subsection (1) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. 4 There shall be paid into the Exchequer any addition resulting from this section to the sums so payable by virtue of any other enactment. 5 This section shall extend to Northern Ireland in so far as it affects— a section 9 of the Fees (Increase) Act 1923 in its operation on any enactment relating to matters in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has no power to make laws; or b section 90(2) of the Transport Act 1962. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Short title and extent. 7 1 This Act may be cited as the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968. 2 Subject to section 5(5) above, this Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland, . . .
Teachers Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1968 PARTS I, II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part III Miscellaneous and General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Payment of deferred annuities. 13 All deferred annuities payable in respect of Scottish contributions to the deferred annuity fund established under the Elementary School Teachers (Superannuation) Act 1898 shall be paid by the Secretary of State; and any sums required by the Secretary of State for making payments under this section shall be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Short title, citation and extent. 23 1 This Act may be cited as the Teachers Superannuation (Scotland) Act 1968. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .