The limit of £60 million which by subsection (5) of section 1 of the M1Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 is imposed on the amount of the contributions which may be made under that section out of money provided by Parliament towards the expenses of local authorities in Scotland in respect of rural water supplies and sewerage is hereby removed; and accordingly for that subsection there shall be substituted the following subsection:—

In subsection (1) above references to subsection (5) of section 1 of the said Act of 1944 are references to that subsection as applied to Scotland by section 7 of that Act.