Local Government and Miscellaneous Financial Provisions (Scotland) Act 1958

Section 1.

THIRD SCHEDULE Adjustment of general grants

PART I

Reduction of aggregate of general grants

1 The aggregate amount fixed by the Secretary of State under subsection (2) of section one of this Act for any year shall be reduced by

(a) the expenditure incurred in that year by the Secretary of State in making any payments to the universities of Scotland under paragraph (5) of section seventy of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1946;

(b) one-half of the expenditure incurred in that year under section twenty-three of the Fire Services Act, 1947, on the central training institution ;

(c) three-quarters of the expenditure incurred in that year under the said section twenty-three on local training centres;

(d) three-quarters of the expenditure incurred in that year on any central examination board established by any regulations made under section eighteen of the said Act of 1947, in connection with the appointment or promotion of persons to any rank in a fire brigade maintained under that Act; and

(e) such proportion not exceeding one-half as the Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury determine of the expenditure incurred in that year by the Secretary of State under sections forty-five and forty-six of the Children Act, 1948, (which relate respectively to grants for training in child care and grants to voluntary organisations).

2 Where the amount of any reduction under the foregoing paragraph depends on expenditure which has not been ascertained at the time when the reduction falls to be made, the amount shall be based on an estimate of the expenditure, and any discrepancy between the estimate and the actual amount of the expenditure shall be compensated for in the earliest practicable subsequent year by means of an adjustment to the aggregate amount fixed as aforesaid for that year.

PART II

Adjustment of general grants payable to local authorities

3 (1) In respect of expenditure to which this paragraph applies, the general grants payable for any year shall be subject to adjustment in accordance with regulations made under this paragraph.

(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations, subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament, provide for ascertaining the aggregate of such expenditure for the year in question of all local authorities and joint county councils of which local authorities are constituent councils, for apportioning the aggregate among the local authorities, and for giving effect to the apportionment by means of increases or decreases in the general grants payable to each authority of such amounts as may be ascertained in accordance with the regulations.

(3) This paragraph applies to expenditure incurred—

(a) in the provision, or in assisting the provision, of such facilities for further education as may be specified by regulations made under this paragraph,

(b) in making, or assisting to make, such other educational provision as may be specified, with the approval of the Treasury and after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to the Secretary of State to be concerned, in regulations made under this paragraph,

(c) in the training of persons to become health visitors or midwives or in respect of persons who are being so trained, and

(d) in the exercise of any of the functions specified in subsection (1) of section thirty-nine of the Children Act, 1948, with respect to children in the care of a local authority, being children determined by the Secretary of State not to be ordinarily resident in the area of the authority,

so however that this paragraph does not apply to expenditure falling within head (d) of this sub-paragraph which is recoverable by the local authority under paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section one of the Children Act, 1948, from the authority in whose area the child is ordinarily resident.