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SCHEDULE 6Adaptation and Amendment of Enactments

PART IIMinor and Consequential Amendments

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 43)

12In section 235 (rating authority may require power to furnish statement of lets)—

(a)in subsection (1) the words " and of the rents for which the same are let " shall cease to have effect;

(b)in subsection (2), for the words " ten pounds " and " twenty pounds " there shall be substituted respectively the words " £50 " and " £100 ", and the words " or the rent for any of the said lands and heritages " shall cease to have effect.

13In section 243 (occupiers' rates not to be levied in respect of unlet and unoccupied subjects)—

(a)in subsection (1) for the words from "year from Whitsunday" to the end there shall be substituted the words " financial year, or, in the case of lands and heritages which are first entered in the valuation roll during the course of the financial year, throughout the whole of the period between the date when such entry becomes effective and the end of the financial year ";

(b)in subsection (2) for the words from " year from " to " fit" there shall be substituted the words " financial year, the rating authority shall ".