Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1963

21 Application of payments made to county councils under Part V of Act of 1948

(1) A county council shall, out of any sums received by them under Part V of the Act of 1948 for the year 1963-64 or any subsequent year, pay to the council of any district in the county an amount which bears to the amount of the sums so received the same proportion as the expenditure of the district council for that year bears to the relevant local expenditure for the landward area of the county for that year.

(2) Section 101 of the Act of 1948 (which relates to the application of payments under the said Part V) shall have effect as respects the year 1963-64 and any subsequent year only in relation to so much of the sums received as mentioned therein as is not paid to district councils under the foregoing subsection.

(3) In this section—

• " district " has the same meaning as in the Act of 1947 ;

• " expenditure " in relation to a district council for any year means so much of that council's expenditure for that year as is reckoned in calculating the relevant local expenditure for that year for the landward area of the county in which the district is situated for the purposes of section 2 of this Act; and

• " relevant local expenditure " in relation to the landward area of a county for any year has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the said section 2.