Public Works Loans Act, 1881

Expenses of ascertaining (under 38 & 39 Vict. c. 89. s. 36.) that loans have been properly applied.

8. The Local Government Board[1] may make orders as to the expenses incurred by them or by any officer appointed by them in making or conducting any examination in pursuance of section thirty-six of the Public Works Loans Act, 1875, for the purpose of ascertaining that any loan or part of a loan advanced by the Public Works Loan Commissioners either before or after the passing of this Act, on the security of a rate, has been applied to the purpose for which the same was advanced.

Any such order may contain directions as to the parties by whom, and the rates out of which such expenses shall be borne, and on the application of the Local Government Board may be made a rule of the High Court of Justice in England, or of the High Court of Session in either division of the Inner House thereof in Scotland.

[1In Scotland, the Secretary for Scotland, 48 & 49 Vict. c. 61. s. 1.]