For the purposes of this Act and of any other enactment relating to local government or to any of the functions of local authorities, counties shall, subject to any alteration effected by this Act or after the commencement of this Act, have the contents and boundaries which they respectively had immediately before the commencement of this Act for the purposes of the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 50.] Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889.
(1)For the purposes of this Act and of any other enactment relating to local government or to any of the functions of local authorities, the boundary of a burgh shall, subject to any alteration thereof effected after the commencement of this Act, be the boundary of the burgh as at the Commencement of this Act for the purposes of the [55 & 56 Vict. c. 55.] Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892, or, in the case of a burgh to which the said Act does not apply, for the purposes of the local Acts applicable to the burgh.
(2)The said boundary of a burgh for the time being in force shall be called the burgh boundary, and any reference in this Act or any of the said enactments to a burgh shall be construed as a reference to the burgh within the burgh boundary thereof, and any reference in any of the said enactments passed before the commencement of this Act to the boundary of a burgh as fixed for municipal purposes or for police purposes or to the municipal boundary or to the police boundary of the burgh shall be construed as a reference to the burgh boundary of the burgh.