Sections 6, 24.
PART I
Modifications relating to Part I of this Act
1In paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section seventy-three (which paragraph requires certain houses to be reserved for the agricultural population) the reference to a contribution payable under section eighty-five shall include a reference to a contribution payable under paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section two of this Act.
2In the following provisions, that is to say—
(a)section eighty-six (which relates to additional Exchequer contributions for houses involving expenditure on rights of support) and
(b)section eighty-eight (which relates to additional Exchequer contributions for houses constructed to preserve the character of their surroundings),
any reference to a contribution payable under Part VI shall include a reference to a contribution payable under Part I of this Act, and any reference to a contribution payable under section eighty-four or eighty-five shall include a reference to a contribution payable under section two of this Act.
3Subsection (4) of section eighty-seven (which subsection relates to housing accommodation transferred from a development corporation to a local authority) shall have effect as if any reference to sums payable to a development corporation under subsection (3) of the said section eighty-seven included a reference to sums payable to such a corporation under Part I of this Act.
4Section one hundred and twenty-seven (which provides among other things for the review of Exchequer contributions) shall have effect as if the reference in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) thereof to the annual contributions payable under section eighty-four, eighty-five or eighty-six included a reference to the annual contributions payable under sections two, three and four of this Act:
Provided that no order made under the said section one hundred and twenty-seven by virtue of this paragraph shall have effect in relation to a house such as is mentioned in paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section two of this Act if the overspill agreement in pursuance of which the house is provided was approved by the Secretary of State before the date of coming into operation of the order.
5Subsection (2) of section one hundred and twenty-eight (which subsection relates to the time and manner in which contributions under certain enactments shall be payable) and section one hundred and twenty-nine (which relates among other things to the failure of a local authority to discharge any duty, or exercise any power, under certain enactments) shall apply in relation to sections two, three and four of this Act as they apply in relation to the enactments specified in Part II of the Sixth Schedule, and accordingly the said Part II shall have effect with the addition, at the end thereof, of the words—
“13Sections two, three and four of the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act, 1957.”;
and in the said subsection (2) the reference to section ninety-three shall include a reference to section twenty-three of this Act.
6Subsection (1) of section one hundred and eighty-four and Part I of the Sixth Schedule (which together define the expression " Exchequer contribution ") shall have effect with the addition, at the end of the said Part I, of the words—
“13Sections two, three and four of the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act, 1957.”
PART IIOther Minor Modifications
7Subsection (1) of section sixty-three (which relates to the acquisition of land by agreement for the purposes of Part V of that Act) shall have effect as if for the words from " in like manner " to the end of the subsection there were substituted the words " under section one hundred and fifty-six of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1947 (notwithstanding anything in section one hundred and seventy-three of that Act), and section one hundred and fifty-eight of that Act shall apply accordingly ".
8In subsection (3) of section seventy-five (which relates to advances made by a local authority for the purpose of increasing housing accommodation) any reference, in relation to an advance, to a bond and disposition in security of the lands with which the advance is concerned shall include a reference to a bond and such other deed of heritable security as may be agreed between the parties making and receiving the advance.
9Subsection (1) of section one hundred and six (which relates to the nature and amounts of Exchequer contributions towards the annual loss likely to be incurred by a local authority as a result of giving effect to approved improvement proposals) shall have effect with the addition at the end thereof of the words " or for such period, not exceeding sixty financial years beginning as aforesaid, as may be determined by the Secretary of State."
10Section one hundred and eleven (which relates to improvement grants to persons other than local authorities) shall have effect with the addition at the end thereof of the following subsection, that is to say—
“(8)If a local authority refuse to approve an application under this section, or, having approved such an application, pay by way of an improvement grant in respect thereof an amount smaller than the maximum amount allowed by subsection (1) of the next following section apart from the proviso to the said subsection, they shall, if the applicant so requests, notify him in writing of the grounds of their refusal or, as the case may be, the grounds of their decision not to pay the said maximum amount”.
11Subsection (1) of section one hundred and twelve (which subsection limits the amount which may be paid by a local authority by way of an improvement grant) shall have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect, as if there were added to paragraph (b) thereof the words " for each dwelling provided or improved by the works ".
12Section one hundred and thirty-eight (which relates to the credits and debits in a local authority's housing revenue account) shall have effect as if in subsection (1) thereof—
(a)after paragraph (c) there were added the following paragraph, namely—
“(d)any payments received by them from another local authority in pursuance of any overspill agreement within the meaning of Part II of the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act, 1957, being payments such as are mentioned in paragraph (vii) of this subsection ;”and;
(b)after paragraph (vi) thereof there were added the following paragraph, namely—
“(vii)any payments made by them to another local authority or a development corporation in pursuance of any overspill agreement within the meaning of Part II of the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act, 1957, being payments towards expenditure which, if it had been incurred by the first mentioned local authority, would have been debited by them to their housing revenue account in pursuance of this subsection”.
13Subsection (1) of section one hundred and eighty-four (which relates to interpretation) shall have effect as if in the definition of the expression " flat" after the word " premises " there were added the words " whether or not on the same floor ".
14Paragraph 8 of the Seventh Schedule (which paragraph relates to the contributions payable under section five of the Housing, Town Planning, etc. (Scotland) Act, 1919) shall have effect as if for the words from "the mean of" to the end of the paragraph there were substituted the words " the total of the rateable values of lands and heritages in the district on which the rates are assessed. "