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title: "War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act 1923"
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# War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act 1923

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act 1923
1923 c.18
An Act to enable local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain, repair and protect war memorials vested in them.
[18th July 1923]

## 1 Expenditure in maintenance, &c., of war memorials. {#section-1}

A local authority may incur reasonable expenditure in the maintenance, repair and protection of any war memorial within their district whether vested in them or not.

## 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2}



## 3 Application. {#section-3}

The provisions of this Act shall not apply to a war memorial provided or maintained by a local authority in the exercise of any other statutory power.

## 4 Definition. {#section-4}

In this Act the expression “local authority” means the council of a county, . . . borough . . . district or parish, and the parish meeting of a rural parish with no parish council.

## 5 Short title. {#section-5}

This Act may be cited as the War Memorials (Local Authorities’ Powers) Act, 1923.