9.—(1) Any expenditure incurred before 1st April 1974 in connection with any of the following matters, that is to say:—
(a)magistrates' courts for any new petty sessions area;
(b)the magistrates' courts committee for any non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district;
(c)justices' clerks and other officers appointed by any such committee;
(d)any other body having functions in relation to any new petty sessions area or any part thereof and composed wholly or mainly of justices for that area, not being a probation and after-care committee,
shall be defrayed by the council of that non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district or of the non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district in which that area is comprised, as the case may be.
(2) Any expenditure of the council of a non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district under paragraph (1) above shall, so far as it relates to any functions mentioned in section 27(2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949, be treated for the purposes of that section as having been incurred in connection with those functions.