Water (Scotland) Act 1967

12 Calculation of amount to be requisitioned by regional water boards

(1) For the purposes of a requisition referred to in section 11(2) of this Act, the aggregate amount required to be raised from their contributing authorities by a regional water board for any financial year, shall be the sum by which their estimated expenditure chargeable to the revenue account of their general fund exceeds the estimated income of that account, and there shall be added to, or as the case may be, deducted from, that sum any sum required to be brought forward, either as a debit or as a credit, from a previous financial year.

(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (5) of this section, in respect of one third of the aggregate amount calculated under the foregoing subsection, the sum to be requisitioned from each contributing authority of a regional water board shall bear to that third the same proportion as the rate product of the relevant part of the district of that authority bears to the aggregate of the rate products of the relevant parts of the districts of all such authorities, and—

(a) for the purposes of this subsection "rate product" means the product of a rate of one penny in the pound or the standard penny rate product, whichever is the higher for the relevant financial year, and the expressions " product of a rate of one penny in the pound " and " standard penny rate product " have the meanings assigned to them by section 9 of the [1963 c. 12.] Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1963 ;

(b) for the purposes of this and the next following subsection, " relevant financial year " means the financial year of the contributing authority preceding the financial year of that authority in respect of which the requisition is made on the authority, and " relevant part of a district " means—

(i) in relation to the district of a constituent council, that district, or, where only part of the district is within the region of the board, that part, exclusive of any premises to which a supply of water is given by another board, but inclusive of any premises, outside the region of the board, to which a supply of water is given by the board and

(ii) in relation to the district of any other contributing authority, any premises in their district to which a supply of water is given by the board.

(3) Subject to the following provisions of this section, in respect of the remainder of the said aggregate amount, the sum to be requisitioned from each contributing authority of a regional water board shall bear to that remainder the same proportion as the product of a domestic water rate of one penny in the pound for the relevant financial year, levied on the relevant part of the district of that authority, bears to the aggregate of the products of such a rate levied on the relevant parts of the districts of all such authorities for the relevant financial year.

(4) In relation to the reference in the foregoing subsection to the product of a domestic water rate of one penny in the pound for the relevant financial year levied for the relevant part of a district, section 9(1) of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1963 shall apply, as it applies to the references in Part I of that Act to the product of the rate of one penny in the pound, with the substitution for the words " that area " of the words " that part"; and for the purposes of the said section 9(1), as so applied, subsection (2) of that section shall also apply.

(5) Where, in the case of any regional water board, the Secretary of State considers, having regard to all the circumstances, that it would be unreasonable or inequitable that the methods of calculating the sums to be requisitioned, as required by subsections (2) and (3) of this section should apply, he may by order modify the requirements of either or both of the said subsections or specify a different method of calculation and, in either event, may so specify the financial years during which the provisions of the said order are to operate, and in relation to that board in respect of those years the provisions of those subsections as so modified, or, where the said order specifies a different method of calculation, the provisions of that order, shall have effect for the purposes of this section.

(6) For the purpose of making any calculation required by this section, section 12 of the [1966 c. 51.] Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 (apportionments, allocations etc. relating to local authorities) shall apply as that section applies to section 7(1) of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1963 with the modification that in subsections (1) and (2) after the words " rate product" there shall be inserted the words " and the product of a domestic water rate of one penny in the pound ".