SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Race Relations Act 1976 (c. 74.)

108

In section 71 of the Race Relations Act 1976 (local authorities: general statutory duty), the existing wording shall become subsection (1) of that section and after that subsection there shall be added—

2

In this section, “local authority”, in relation to Scotland, means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (“the 1994 Act”) and includes—

a

a joint board and a joint committee within the meaning of the [1973 c. 65.] Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;

b

the staff commission established by virtue of section 12 of the 1994 Act;

c

a water and sewerage authority within the meaning of the 1994 Act; and

d

the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority.