Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

118 Combination of counties of Perth and Kinross and of Moray and Nairn for certain purposes.

(1) There shall be combined—

(i) the county of Kinross with the county of Perth, and

(ii) the county of Nairn with the county of Moray,

for every purpose for which any small burgh is by virtue of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, included within a county and for any other purpose for which any small burgh is by virtue of any enactment or statutory order subsequent to the said Act of 1929 included within a county but not for any other purpose, and the provisions of subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5) of this section shall have effect for the purposes of such combination.

(2) The members of the county councils of the two counties forming the combined county shall form a joint county council for the combined county.

(3) The combined county and the joint county council shall be the county and the county council respectively for the purposes of the provisions of Part III of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, relating to the county apportionment and the General, Additional and Supplementary Exchequer Grants, and the separate counties and the county councils thereof shall be the counties and the county councils respectively for the purposes of the provisions of the said Part of the said Act relating to the Landward General Exchequer Grants, and the other provisions of the said Part shall have effect accordingly.

(4) The expenses of the joint county council, so far as requiring to be apportioned and allocated between the landward parts of the two separate counties, shall be so apportioned and allocated between the two county councils in like manner as expenses are apportioned and allocated for the purpose of ascertaining the contributions of small burghs to a county council, and the provisions of Part XI of this Act relating to requisitions by county councils to town councils of small burghs shall, subject to the necessary modifications, apply to the sums so apportioned and allocated.

(5) The joint county council may, subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act and of their administrative schemes, delegate any of their functions to the county council of either county as if such council were a committee of the joint county council.

(6) References to a county council and to a county in this Act or any other enactment or any statutory order relating to any of the purposes for which the combination under this section is to have effect shall, in the application of this Act or any such enactment or statutory order to the counties mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, be construed as references to the joint county council and the combined county respectively.