SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 Amendments with respect to Finance

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966

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In Schedule 1, in Part II—

(a)

in paragraph 1, the words from “shall be payable” to “burgh, but” shall cease to have effect;

(b)

paragraph 3 shall cease to have effect;

(c)

in paragraph 4, in sub-paragraph (1), for the words “county council or town council” there shall be substituted the words “islands or district council”.

(d)

for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

“5

For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the relevant local expenditure in relation to a regional, islands or district council for any year is so much of the council’s total expenditure for the year as would fall to be met out of the regional rate, the general rate or the district rate respectively if no resources element were payable to that council”.