Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

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(i) nothing in this repeal shall affect any byelaw in force at the commencement of this Act, and any such byelaw which is of such a nature that it could have been made under this Act shall have effect as if made under this Act, and may be amended or revoked and enforced accordingly;

(ii) in the case of a byelaw which has been made before the commencement of this Act but which, by reason of its not having been confirmed or of the time for disallowance not having expired, is not in force at that date, the same proceedings may be taken and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed;

(iii) if at the commencement of this Act a casual vacancy has occurred in any office, and the vacancy has not been filled, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed;

(iv) nothing in this repeal shall affect any steps taken before the commencement of this Act with respect to the formation, alteration, combination or dissolution of special districts under any enactment repealed by this Act, and any such steps and any opposition thereto may be continued and followed forth as if this Act had not been passed;

(v) nothing in this repeal shall affect any proceedings instituted before the commencement of this Act for the alteration of the boundaries of the area of a local authority or for the formation of a burgh under any enactment repealed by this Act, and such proceedings and any opposition thereto may be continued and followed forth as if this Act has not been passed;

(vi) nothing in this repeal shall effect any legal proceedings instituted before the commencement of this Act under or by virtue of any enactment repealed by this Act, and such proceedings may be continued and appealed against as if this Act had not been passed;

(vii) in so far as any appointment, agreement, order, scheme, rule or regulation made or resolution passed, direction or notice given, or other thing done under or by virtue of any enactment repealed by this Act could have been made, passed, given or done under or by virtue of a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall not be invalidated by this repeal but shall have effect as if it had been made, passed, given or done under or by virtue of that corresponding provision, and may be amended, revoked or enforced accordingly;

(viii) notwithstanding anything in this section, the enactments repealed by this Act relating to the audit of accounts and other matters mentioned in Part X of this Act shall continue to have effect with respect to the accounts of local authorities for the period prior to the first financial year to the accounts for which the provisions of the said Part X apply;

(ix) nothing in this repeal shall affect any rates levied by a local authority under any enactment repealed by this Act, or the liability of any person to the authority for payment of such rates, and any such rates may be recovered in like manner as if this Act had not been passed;

(x) nothing in this repeal shall affect any requisition issued by a requisitioning authority within the meaning of Part XI of this Act to a rating authority within the meaning of that Part under any enactment repealed by this Act, or the liability of the rating authority to make payment to the requisitioning authority of the sum due thereunder, and such sum may be recovered in like manner as if this Act had not been passed;

(xi) nothing in this repeal shall affect any statutory borrowing power exercised by a local authority under any enactment repealed by this Act in respect of which any money borrowed is outstanding at the commencement of this Act, or any security created by the authority in respect of such outstanding money, and such statutory borrowing power and security shall continue to have effect so far as regards such outstanding money as if the statutory borrowing power were contained in this Act, so however that all money borrowed under the said power shall be repaid within the period specified in the repealed enactment relating thereto;

(xii) notwithstanding this repeal, any property or liabilities held or incurred or treated as incurred by a local authority immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue to be held or incurred or treated as incurred by the authority for the same purposes and subject to the same trusts as they were immediately before the commencement of this Act, and any contract or other document which might have been enforced by or against a local authority immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue to be enforceable by or against that authority;

(xiii) nothing in this repeal shall affect any compensation payable or any title to compensation under any enactment repealed by this Act, whether as originally enacted or as applied by any other enactment or statutory order.

(2) Any resolution by a town council under section one hundred and nine of the M1 Town Councils (Scotland) Act, 1900, shall cease to have effect, and any enactment in a local Act having the same effect as such a resolution is hereby repealed.

(3) Funds and accounts under this Act shall be deemed to be in continuation of the corresponding funds and accounts under the enactments repealed by this Act.

(4) Any document referring to any Act or enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed as referring to this Act or to the corresponding enactment, if any, in this Act.

(5) The mention of particular matters in this section shall not be held to prejudice or affect the general application of section thirty-eight of the M2 Interpretation Act, 1889, with regard to the effect of repeals.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)

Marginal Citations

M1 1900 c. 49.

M2 1889 c. 63.