Local Government (Financial Provisions etc.) (Scotland) Act 1962

Section 12.

SECOND SCHEDULEConsequential Amendments

The Local Government Act, 1948

1In section ninety-three of the Local Government Act, 1948 (which relates to payments by the British Transport Commission), in subsection (3), for paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) there shall be substituted the words " be payments of the standard amount adjusted, in accordance with the provisions of the two next succeeding sections, for changes in the average rates levied in Scotland and for changes in the circumstances of the British Transport Commission ", and, in subsection (4), for the words from " to be the estimated amount" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words " in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) of section two of the Local Government (Financial Provisions etc.) (Scotland) Act, 1962 ".

2For section ninety-six of the said Act of 1948 (which relates to payments by the South of Scotland Electricity Board) there shall be substituted the following section :—

“96Amount of payments by South of Scotland Electricity Board.

(1)The payments which are, under the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, to be made year by year by the South of Scotland Electricity Board for the benefit of local authorities shall be payments for the benefit of local authorities in Scotland with areas outside the North of Scotland District and shall be payments of the standard amount adjusted, in accordance with the provisions of the two next succeeding sections, for changes in the average rates levied in Scotland outside the North of Scotland District, and for changes in the amount of electricity supplied.

(2)In this and the two next succeeding sections, ' the standard amount' means the sum calculated in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of section two of the Local Government (Financial Provisions etc.) (Scotland) Act, 1962.”

3In section ninety-nine of the said Act of 1948 (which relates to payments by the Hydro-Electric Board), in subsection (1), paragraph (a), and in paragraph (b) the words " in the case of any subsequent year", shall cease to have effect, and for the words from " such sum" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words " the sum calculated in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of section two of the Local Government (Financial Provisions etc.) (Scotland) Act, 1962. "

The Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act, 1956

4In section nine of the Act of 1956 (which relates to the duties of assessors), after paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following words— “or

(c)any alteration relating to value of lands and heritages made under section nine of the Local Government (Financial Provisions etc.) (Scotland) Act, 1962”.

The Recreational Charities Act, 1958

5In section six of the Recreational Charities Act, 1958 (which relates to the application of that Act to Scotland), at the end of subsection (2), there shall be added the words " or, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, of the Local Government (Financial Provisions etc.) (Scotland) Act, 1962 ".