Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966

6 Supplemental.

(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations for carrying the foregoing provisions of this Act into effect and, without prejudice to the generality of this provision.—

(a) for determining the manner in which any calculation or estimate is to be made for any of the purposes of those provisions and, in particular, for determining—

(i) the manner in which and the time as at which road mileages, population, the numbers of persons of any specified description and any other relevant elements for any area are to be ascertained,

(ii) the descriptions of roads which are to be taken into account in calculating road mileages,

(iii) the authority or person by or to whom any information required for the said purposes is to be given and the time at which and the form in which it is to be given,

(iv) the adjustments to be made for any abnormal treatment of income or expenditure in accounts ;

(b) for providing that the calculations or estimates by reference to which any payments are made may be treated as either conclusive or provisional or conclusive for some purposes and provisional for other purposes and, in so far as they are treated as provisional, for the making of further calculations or estimates based on information not previously available and for adjusting, in the light thereof, any payment already made;

(c) for modifying the operation of the foregoing provisions of this Act in relation to any authority if and in so far as any modification is required in relation to that authority in consequence of any alterations or combinations of authorities or alterations of boundaries;

and regulations under this subsection may make different provisions for different circumstances.

(2) The Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, determine that any sea route between two places in a county, being a sea route served by a ferry or by public transport vessels and specified in the determination, shall be treated for the purposes of regulations made under this section as if it were a road in the county; and any such determination may be varied or revoked by the Secretary of State.

(3) In the year 1967-68 and subsequent years education authorities (within the meaning of the [1962 c. 47.] Education (Scotland) Act 1962) shall not be required to contribute to the expenses of committees and other bodies for the training of teachers described in section 25(5) of that Act, and accordingly the said section 25(5) shall cease to have effect at the end of the year 1966-67.

(4) In subsection (4)(d) of section 75 of the said Act of 1962 (which relates to grants to education authorities) the words from " not being relevant expenditure" to the end of the paragraph shall cease to have effect at the end of the year 1966-67.

(5) References in this section to the foregoing provisions of this Act include references to Schedule 1 to this Act.

(6) Any statutory instrument containing regulations made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.