Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929

Discontinued Grants.

52 Discontinuance of grants.

(1) The grants set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act (in this Act referred to as " the discontinued grants ") shall cease to be payable—

(a) as regards the grants payable into the Local Taxation (Scotland) Account in respect of any period after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty; and

(b) as regards the other grants in respect of any period after the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty.

(2) As soon as may be after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, the Local Taxation (Scotland) Account shall be wound up in accordance with such directions as the Treasury may give.

(3) The provisions set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act shall, as from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty, have effect with respect to the payments therein mentioned, being payments which immediately before the said day, were payable out of the Local Taxation (Scotland) Account.

(4) In calculating the amount of sums estimated to be expended and the amount of the sums actually expended in any year from the vote for education in England and Wales for the purposes of paragraph (ii) of subsection (1) of section twenty-one of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, no account shall be taken of the sum included in the amounts aforesaid in lieu of the sum of eight hundred and seven thousand two hundred and sixty pounds hitherto paid out of the Local Taxation Account for the purposes of higher education in England.