Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The M1 Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 S

Marginal Citations

M1 1966 c. 51.

65 S In section 2, in subsection (2), in paragraph (b), the words “and grants under the Rating Act 1966” shall cease to have effect.

66 S In section 6, in subsection (2), for the words “a county” there shall be substituted the words “the area of any local authority”; and for the words “the county” there shall be substituted the words “that area”.

67 S In section 7, in subsection (1), for the words “local authority” there shall be substituted the words “rating authority” and at the end there shall be inserted the following words:—

“In this subsection the words “the amount of the rate”, in relation to a regional council, mean the aggregate amount of the regional rate and the district rate”.

68 S In section 46(1), in the definition of “local authority”, for the words from “county” onwards there shall be substituted the words “regional, islands or district council”.

69 S In Schedule 1, in Part I—

(a) in paragraph 1, for the words “first be apportioned to all counties and those burghs which are counties of cities” there shall be substituted the words “be apportioned to all regions, islands areas and districts”;

(b) paragraph 2 shall cease to have effect;

(c) in paragraph 5, in sub-paragraph (2), the words from “and joint” to “constituent councils” shall cease to have effect; for the words “the local authorities” there shall be substituted the words “such classes of local authority as may be specified in the regulations”; and for the words “each authority” there shall be substituted the words “such authorities as may be so specified”.

70 S In Schedule 1, in Part II—

(a) in paragraph 1, the words from “shall be payable” to “burgh, but” shall cease to have effect;

(b) paragraph 3 shall cease to have effect;

(c) in paragraph 4, in sub-paragraph (1), for the words “county council or town council” there shall be substituted the words “islands or district council”.

(d) for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“5 For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the relevant local expenditure in relation to a regional, islands or district council for any year is so much of the council’s total expenditure for the year as would fall to be met out of the regional rate, the general rate or the district rate respectively if no resources element were payable to that council”.

71 S In Schedule 1, in Part III, in paragraphs 2 and 3, for the words “local authority” there shall be substituted the words “rating authority”.

72 S In Schedule 2—

(a) in paragraph 19, in head (a), the words “and, where appropriate, the separately rated areas” shall cease to have effect;

(b) paragraph 22 shall cease to have effect;

(c) in paragraph 27, the definition of “burgh” shall cease to have effect; in the definition of “rating area”, for the words from “of”, where it first occurs, to the end there shall be substituted the words “of an islands council or of a district council”; and the definition of “separately rated area” shall cease to have effect.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 9 para. 73 repealed by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 335, 339(2)(3), Sch. 23 para. 20(4), Sch. 24