Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

38 In section 12 (calculation of amount to be requisitioned by regional water boards)—

(a) for any reference to a district there shall be substituted a reference to a region ;

(b) in subsection (1), for the words from "11(2)" to "that account" there shall be substituted the words " 11(1) of this Act, the aggregate amount referred to in that subsection for any financial year shall be the sum by which the estimated expenditure of the water authority in the exercise of any of their functions under any enactment in relation to water supply and chargeable to the revenue account of their general fund exceeds the estimated income pertaining thereto, but excluding from such expenditure any amount payable by way of requisition to another water authority and from such income any amount receivable by way of rates or requisition ";

(c) in subsections (2) and (3), for the words "that authority bears " and " all such authorities " there shall be substituted respectively the words " the contributing authority bears " and "the authority making the requisition and of all such contributing authorities " ;

(d) in subsection (2)(b), for head (i) there shall be substituted the following—

“(i) in relation to the region of a regional council, the whole or part of which is within the limits of supply of the water authority, that region, or, as the case may be, that part, exclusive of any premises to which a supply of water is given by another water authority but inclusive of any premises outside the limits of supply of the water authority to which a supply of water is given by the water authority, and”.