An Act to increase the limit on the contributions payable to local authorities in Scotland under the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944.
[26th February 1970]
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of this Act stands unchanged between 1.2.1991 and 1.12.1991
(1)The following shall be substituted for section 1(5) of the M1Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 (Government contributions towards expenses of local authorities for rural water supplies and sewerage) as applied to Scotland by section 7 of that Act:—
“(5)Any contributions made by the Secretary of State under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament, and shall not, in the aggregate, exceed sixty million pounds.”
(2)The following enactments are hereby repealed, that is to say, section 21 of the M2Water (Scotland) Act 1949, in section 1(3) of the M3Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955, the words “as amended by section twenty-one of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949”, in section 2(2) of the said Act of 1955, the words “and section twenty-one of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949”, the M4Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (No. 2) Act 1955 and section 6 of the M5Local Goverment (Financial Provisions) Act 1963.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2The text of s. 1(1)(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Marginal Citations
M41955 c. 15. (4 & 5 Eliz. 2).
This Act may be cited as the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1970 and extends to Scotland only.