PART IVMiscellaneous and Supplemental

27Interpretation

(1)

This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, any reference in the principal Act or in Part I of the Housing (Repairs and Rents) (Scotland) Act, 1954 to—

(a)

any enactment contained in the principal Act which is amended by this Act shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as so amended, and

(b)

an Exchequer contribution payable under Part VI of the principal Act shall be construed as including a reference to an Exchequer contribution payable under Part I of this Act.

(2)

In this Act the expression " principal Act" means the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950.

(3)

Any reference in this Act to a provision of the principal Act shall include a reference to the corresponding provision of any enactment repealed by that Act.

(4)

Any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by any subsequent enactment, including this Act.

(5)

Any provision of this Act containing a reference to the sixteenth day of May shall, in its application to a local authority whose financial year begins on a day other than the sixteenth day of May, have effect with the substitution for the said reference of a reference to that other day.