Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972

7 The slum clearance subsidy

(1) This section has effect as to the circumstances in which slum clearance subsidy is payable to a local authority.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, a local authority shall be entitled to slum clearance subsidy in respect of such expenditure incurred by them as may be approved by the Secretary of State which falls within any of the following categories—

(a) any expenses in demolishing a building in pursuance of any provision of Part II or Part III of the Act of 1966 or Part I of the Act of 1969 less any such expenses which the local authority have recovered from the owner of the building under any such provision and any amount realised by the local authority in the sale of materials of the building ;

(b) any expenses in the clearance of the site of any such building as is referred to in paragraph (a) above;

(c) any payment under section 18 of the Act of 1969 (payments to certain owner-occupiers and others in respect of houses not meeting tolerable standard which are purchased or demolished) other than any such payment in respect of an interest in a house which has been purchased by the local authority for the purpose of bringing that house or another house up to the tolerable standard;

(d) any payment under section 25 or 49 of the Act of 1966 or section 11 of the Act of 1969 (payments in respect of well-maintained houses) other than any such payment in respect of an interest in a house which has been purchased by the local authority for the purpose of bringing that house or another house up to the tolerable standard;

(e) any expenditure incurred under section 52 of the Act of 1966 or section 15 of the Act of 1969 (provisions as to apparatus of public undertakers);

(f) such part of the compensation paid to an owner of trade or business premises purchased by the local authority under Part III of the Act of 1966 or Part I of the Act of 1969 as is applicable to disturbance or to such other matters not directly relating to the value of the land purchased as may be determined by the Secretary of State;

(g) the cost of any works carried out by the local authority under section 20(8) of the Act of 1966 (local authority may acquire and repair a house or building liable to closing or demolition order) or section 40 of the Act of 1966 or section 8 of the Act of 1969 (power of local authority to retain houses subject to demolition for temporary occupation);

(h) any payment under section 160 of the Act of 1966 (payment of removal and other allowances to persons displaced) other than a payment under—

(i) subsection (1)(a)(i) of that section in respect of any person displaced from a house or building under Part VII of that Act, or

(ii) subsection (1)(a)(v), or (1)(b) where the recipient of the payment is also in receipt of compensation from the local authority in respect of property which he owned;

(i) such other expenditure as the Secretary of State may direct.

(3) A local authority shall not be entitled to slum clearance subsidy in respect of expenditure incurred by them—

(a) before the beginning of the year 1971-72, or

(b) after the beginning of the year 1971-72 and before the beginning of the year 1975-76, if it is expenditure in relation to land, being land expenditure in respect of which an exchequer contribution has been paid under Part I of the Act of 1968 or land which would be included for the purposes of residual entitlement under section 2(3)(b) of this Act.

(4) If, under the foregoing provisions of this section, a local authority are entitled to slum clearance subsidy, then slum clearance subsidy shall be payable to the local authority of an amount equal to 75 per cent. of the annual loan charges referable to the amount of expenditure incurred by them in a year which falls within any of the categories set out in subsection (2) above, payable annually for the period of twenty years beginning with the year immediately following the year in which the expenditure was incurred.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) above the annual loan charges referable to the amount of expenditure incurred by the local authority shall be the annual sum which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, would fall to be provided by the local authority for the payment of interest on, and the repayment of, a loan of that amount repayable over a period of twenty years.