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Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947
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149Power to apply burgh statutory provisions.
(1)A county council may by resolution adopt, subject to any necessary modifications and to any other modifications that may be approved by the Secretary of State, such provisions (including provisions relating to byelaws and penalties for non-compliance therewith) contained in the Burgh Police Acts and in any other public general Act relating to any of the purposes for which a special district is formed and which apply or may by adoption be made to apply to a burgh as the council with the sanction of the Secretary of State may determine, and as from a date to be fixed by the council the provisions as so adopted shall have effect within and in relation to the special district.
(2)Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding subsection, a county council may by resolution adopt within any special district formed for any of the purposes specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and forty-six of this Act, subject to any necessary modifications and to any other modifications that may be approved by the Secretary of State, the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-four, one hundred and forty-five, one hundred and fifty-eight and one hundred and ninety-one to two hundred of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892, or any one or more of the said sections, and as from a date to be fixed by the council the provisions as so adopted shall have effect within and in relation to the special district.
(3)The provisions of any Act adopted under any enactment repealed by this Act and applying to a special district immediately prior to the commencement of this Act shall continue to apply to that district as if adopted under this section.
(4)Any adoption by a county council of enactments under this section (including any such adoption prior to the commencement of this Act to which the immediately preceding subsection applies) may be altered or revoked by the county council with the approval of the Secretary of State.
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