Section 9.
1For the purposes of section 9(3) of this Act the weighted population of an area for any year shall be the population thereof plus the number of children under fifteen years of age therein, plus (if applicable in accordance with this Schedule)—
(a)the variation weighting, and
(b)the road mileage weighting,
far the area.
2For the purposes of the foregoing paragraph the variation weighting for an area which is a large burgh shall be the number of persons by which the increase or decrease (if any) of the population of the burgh during the period of five years immediately preceding the year in question exceeds one-twentieth of the population of the burgh in the first year of that period of five years.
3(1)For the purposes of paragraph 1 of this Schedule the variation weighting for an area which is a small burgh or the landward area of a county shall be such number as bears to the number ascertained under the following sub-paragraph the same proportion as the population of the area bears to the population of the county.
(2)The number to be ascertained under this sub-paragraph is the number of persons by which the increase or decrease (if any) of the population of the county during the period of five years immediately preceding the year in question exceeds one-twentieth of (the population of the county in the first year of (that period of five years.
4(1)The road mileage weighting for an area which is a small burgh or the landward area of a county, being an area situated in a county to which this paragraph applies, shall be such number as bears to the number ascertained under sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph the same proportion as the population of the area bears to the population of the county.
(2)This paragraph applies to a county in respect of which the figure arrived at by dividing the population of the county by the road mileage thereof is less than seventy.
(3)The number to be ascertained under this sub-paragraph is one-third of the number of the additional population needed in order that (the figure arrived at by the division mentioned in the last foregoing sub-paragraph should be seventy.
5In the computation of the population of any area for the purpose of ascertaining /the variation weighting for the area under this Schedule no account shall be taken of any members of the armed forces of the Crown (within the meaning of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947) or of a visiting force (within the meaning of the Visiting Forces Act 1952) who may be located in the area only because of their duty as such.
6References in this Schedule to a county, in relation to a small burgh or a landward area, are references to the county in which the small burgh or, as the case may be, the landward area is situated, excluding any large burgh situated in the county.