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Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961
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12Contributions to and by local authorities
(1)A local authority may make contributions towards expenditure incurred—
(a)by any other person in the carrying out of operations which could properly have been carried out by the local authority under this Act, or
(b)by a sewerage or water authority in carrying out, or paying compensation in respect of, any operations for the diversion of a sewer or, as the case may be, a water main, being operations connected with the improvement or alteration of a watercourse and specified in a flood prevention scheme made by that local authority.
(2)Where a local authority are a sewerage or water authority and as such incur expenditure in carrying out, or paying compensation in respect of, any operations such as are specified in paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection in relation to a flood prevention scheme made by themselves, they may appropriate to the accounts of their sewerage, or, as the case may be, water, undertaking such sum as they think fit in respect of that expenditure; and any such appropriation shall be deemed to be a contribution under this section towards the expenditure.
(3)A local authority may receive from any other person contributions towards the expenditure by the local authority in exercising their powers under this Act.
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