Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

126 Disability of member for voting on account of interest in contract, and &c.

Section seventy-three of this Act shall apply in the case of members of a committee or sub-committee of a local authority (including any committee or sub-committee to which section fifty-two of this Act applies), whether appointed under this Act or any other enactment or any statutory order, or of members of any joint committee or joint board in like manner as that section applies in the case of members of local authorities, subject to the following modifications:—

(a) as respects members of a committee or sub-committee, references to meetings of the committee or subcommittee shall be substituted for references to meetings of the local authority, and the right of persons who are members of the committee or sub-committee but not members of the authority to inspect the book to be kept under subsection (6) of the said section seventy-three shall be limited to the inspection of the entries in the book relating to members of the committee or sub-committee;

(b) as respects members of any joint committee or joint board, references to meetings of the joint committee or joint board shall be substituted for references to meetings of the local authority and references to the clerk to the joint committee or joint board for references to the clerk, of the authority;

(c) in subsection (8) of the said section seventy-three references to the local authority shall be construed, in the case of a committee or sub-committee exercising functions vested in the authority, as references to the authority, and in any other case as references to the committee, sub-committee, joint committee or joint board.