Rural District Council
Captain H.H. Williams presided over a special meeting of the Buntingford Rural District Council, held at the Board Room on Friday last to discuss the workings of the Housing (Rural Workers) Act of 1926.
The Chairman said they had met to consider the advisability of applying to the Ministry of Health for a declaration that the Council should be the Local Authority to administer the Act to the exclusion of the County Council.
The Chairman fully explained the Act, and pointed out that while the administration concerned the Rural and Urban Districts more than it did the County Councils, the Government, for some reason or other, was anxious for the Act to operate through the County Councils.
Following a discussion on the various points, the following resolution was unanimously carried:
"Resolved that this Council, in accordance with the provisions of Season 5. s.s. 1 of the Housing (Rural Workers) Act of 1926, do make application to the Ministry of Health for the purpose of being declared the Local Authority to administer, throughout the Rural District of Buntingford, the Housing (Rural Workers) Act of 1926 and any scheme made there-under to the exclusion of the Council of the County of Hertford."
In the event of the Ministry declaring the Rural District Council to be the Local Authority, a scheme will be prepared by the Council whereby financial assistance will be afforded to owners of property for putting into good habitable condition houses occupied by agricultural labourers or others coming under the same category.
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