Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

179 Payments by county council in respect of salaries of procurators fiscal, and &c.

Every county council shall in each year make payment of the following salaries, fees, outlays and expenses so far as the same were immediately before the commencement of this Act by law or usage payable by the council:—

(1) the salaries, fees and necessary outlays of procurators fiscal in the sheriff court;

(2) the expenses of searching for, apprehending, subsisting, prosecuting or punishing criminals;

(3) the expenses connected with upholding, repairing, enlarging, renting, furnishing, insuring, lighting, cleaning or warming any courthouse, and all taxes and rates legally chargeable thereon;

(4) the expenses connected with the holding of the court for striking the fiars prices for the county;

(5) all expenses occasioned by damage done to property within the county by tumultuous or riotous assemblies and all expenses properly incurred in the prevention of riots;

(6) any other expenses or payments directed by any Act to be defrayed out of the county general assessment.