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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 (c. 51)

5In section 2(2) (which relates to the determination of the estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants for any year), for the words "section 4" there shall be substituted the words " sections 3 and 4 ".

6In section 3 (which provides for the making of rate support grant orders)—

(a)in subsection (1), for the word " fixed " where it first occurs there shall be substituted the words " determined (or redetermined) "; and

(b)in subsection (3), for the word " Rate " there shall be substituted the words " Subject to section 4 of this Act, rate ".

7In section 4 (which relates to the variation of rate support grant orders), for subsections (2) to (7) there shall be substituted the following subsections—

(2)A rate support grant order made by virtue of subsection (1) above with respect to any year may vary matters prescribed by the rate support grant order which first fixed the estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants for that year.

(3)A rate support grant order may, if the Secretary of State considers it practicable that it should do so, relate both to an estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants determined, and to such an amount redetermined, under section 2(2) of this Act..