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Original Cancer Act of 1939
Original Cancer Act of 1939
2 & 3 GEO. 6.
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section.
1. Duty
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4.
5.
6.
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8.
of local authorities.
Financial provisions.
Loans to National Radium Trust.
Prohibition of certain advertisements.
Interpretation.
Application to London.
Application to Scotland.
Short title, citation and extent.
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CHAPTER 13.
An Act to make further provision for the treatment
of cancer, to authorise the Minister of Health
to lend money to the National Radium Trust,
to prohibit certain advertisements relating to
cancer, and for purposes connected with the
matters aforesaid.
[29th March 1939.]
E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,
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26 Geo. 5. &
1 Edw. 8.
c. 49.
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I Geo.
c. 22.
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thirty-eight.
(8) Any such estimate as aforesaid made for the
purpose of subsection (2) or subsection (6) of this section
shall be made to the satisfaction of the Minister in accordance with directions given by him after consultation with
such associations of local authorities as appear to him-to be
concerned and with any council with which consultation
appears to him to be desirable, and any such directions(a) may provide that expenditure incurred by any
council in the provision of treatment for persons
suffering from cancer shall for the purposes
of this section require the approval of the
Minister ; and
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may also provide that the amount of any expenditure so incurred in respect of any particular
services by a council, or by a council of any
class specified in the directions, shall be estimated
by reference to the estimated average net annual
expenditure incurred in respect of those services
by all councils or by councils of that class.
(9) In this section the following expressions have the
meanings hereby respectively assigned to them
Average weighting factor " means the quotient
obtained by dividing the aggregate weighted
population of all the counties and county
boroughs in England and Wales by their
aggregate estimated population ;
"Weighting factor ", -in relation to a county or
county borough, means the quotient obtained
by dividing the weighted population thereof by
the estimated population thereof ;
" Estimated population ", " weighted population ",
" fixed grant period " and " General Exchequer
Contribution " have the same meanings as in
the Local Government Act, 1929, as amended
by any subsequent enactment.
(b)
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Prohibition
ofcertain
advertisements.
(b) referring
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(4) In any proceedings for a contravention of subsection (1) of this section, it shall be a defence for the
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in-patients or as out-patients ;
Application
6. The Public Health (London) Act, 1936, shall
to London. have effect as
section one of this Act, in so far as it
26 Geo. 5. &
relates
to
the
London
County Council, were included
I Edw. 8.
if
c. 50.
in Part
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19 & 20
Geo. 5.
c. 25.
Edw. 8. &
Geo. 6.
c. 29.
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(e) section
that Act ;
(f)
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