Local Government Act 1948

96 Amount of payments by British Electricity Authority.

(1) The payments which are, under the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, to be made year by year by the British Electricity Authority for the benefit of local authorities shall be as follows, that is to say, the Authority—

(a) shall in each year make a payment for the benefit of local authorities in England and Wales ; and

(b) shall in each year make a payment for the benefit of local authorities in Scotland with areas outside the North of Scotland District.

(2) The said payments shall—

(a) in the case of the year 1948-49, be payments of the standard amount ;

(b) in the case of subsequent years, be payments of the standard amount adjusted, in accordance with the provisions of the two next succeeding sections, for changes in the average rates levied in England and Wales or, as the case may be, in Scotland outside the North of Scotland District, and for changes in the amount of electricity supplied.

(3) In this section and the two next succeeding sections, the expression " the standard amount " means, in relation to a payment for the benefit of local authorities in England and Wales, the sum of eleven million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and, in relation to a payment for the benefit of local authorities in Scotland, such sum as is certified by the Secretary of State to be the estimated amount which would have been payable by way of rates in Scotland outside the North of Scotland District for the year 1947-48 in respect of the lands and heritages belonging to the British Electricity Authority or an Area Electricity Board which are by virtue of this Act not liable to be rated.