Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

173 Savings.

Nothing in this Part of this Act—

(a) (except so far as relating to the compulsory purchase of land) shall affect the provisions of the Ancient Monuments Acts, 1913 and 1931, or empower a local authority to acquire or to dispose of whether by lease, sale, feu or excambion or to appropriate any ancient monument within the meaning of those Acts; or

(b) shall authorise the disposal of land by a local authority whether by lease, sale, feu or excambion in breach of any trust, undertaking or agreement binding on the authority; or

(c) shall affect any provisions relating to the acquisition by agreement, appropriation, letting or disposal of land, the erection of buildings or the execution of works by a local authority contained in any of the enactments set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act or in any statutory order made thereunder, or the application of any capital money arising from such disposal, or, in so far as any of those enactments or orders contain provisions relating to the acquisition by agreement, appropriation, letting or disposal of land or the erection of buildings or the execution of works or the application of capital money arising from land, empower a local authority to effect any transaction or do anything which might be effected or done under those provisions otherwise than under those provisions and in accordance therewith; or

(d) shall authorise a local authority to acquire by agreement, or appropriate land or erect buildings on land or execute other works for the purpose of any function of the authority or to appropriate, let or dispose of land held for the purpose of any such function where any enactment or statutory order relating to the function (not being an enactment set out in the said Fourth Schedule) requires that a consent be obtained or some provision, limitation or condition be complied with in the case of such a transaction under that enactment or order except subject to such consent or subject to compliance with such provision, limitation or condition.