Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929

Grants to Large Burghs.

61 General Exchequer Grants to large burghs.

The whole of every burgh apportionment shall be paid to the council of the large burgh and the sum so paid shall be called the General Exchequer Grant of that council.

62 Additional Exchequer Grants to large burghs.

(1) There shall be ascertained in accordance with the rules set out in the Eighth Schedule to this Act as respects every large burgh, whether the operation of Part I (except section seven) and Parts II and III of this Act would apart from this and the next following section result in a gain or loss to the burgh and the amount of the gain or loss:

Provided that, if a large burgh comprises two or more separately rated areas, the gain or loss of each area shall be so ascertained, and the gain or loss of the burgh as a whole shall be the amount by which the gains exceed the losses or the losses the gains of the several areas.

(2) Section fifty-seven of this Act shall apply to large burghs as if for references to counties and the county apportionment there were substituted references to large burghs and the burgh apportionment and as if J for the words " the amount of the loss on account of rates and grants of that county " there were substituted the words " an amount equal to the " burgh apportionment for the first fixed grant period " increased by the loss or reduced by the gain of the " burgh as a whole as ascertained under subsection (1) " of section sixty-two of this Act."

63 Supplementary Exchequer Grants to large burghs.

(1) For the purpose of adjusting as between separately rated areas in any large burgh any decrease and increase of the poundage of rates due to the operation of Part I (except section seven) and Parts II and III of this Act during the period of nineteen years beginning on the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty, the following provisions shall have effect during that period—

(a) there shall be ascertained in accordance with the rules set out in the Eighth Schedule to this Act as respects every separately rated area in the burgh whether the operation of Part I (except section seven) and Parts II and III of this Act would, apart from this and the last preceding section, result in a gain or toss to the area, and the amount of the gain or loss :

(b) if a loss is disclosed as respects any one or more of such areas, and the Additional Exchequer Grant (if any) of the burgh is an amount less than one-half of the aggregate amount of such losses, there shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament to the council of the burgh the following amounts, that is to say :—

(i) for the year beginning on the said sixteenth day of May and each of the four following years such sum as together with the amount of the Additional Exchequer Grant (if any) is equal to one-half of the said aggregate amount of such losses;

(ii) for each of the next succeeding fourteen years an amount less than the amount payable for the preceding year by a sum equal to one-fifteenth of the amount payable for the year beginning on the said sixteenth day of May.

(c) the Secretary of State shall make regulations for securing that the grants under this Part of this Act paid to the council of the large burgh shall be applied towards making good to areas with respect to which a loss is disclosed the amount of such loss or of part thereof in such manner as to effect the objects of this section.

(2) The sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament to the council of a large burgh under this section in respect of any year shall be called the " Supplementary Exchequer Grant " of that council.