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:—

The following enactments are hereby repealed, that is to say, section 21 of the M2Water (Scotland) Act 1949, in section 1(3) of the M3Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955, the words “as amended by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.