26Sections 173 and 173A of that Act (attendance allowance and financial loss allowance) shall be amended as follows—
(a)for the words “local authority”, wherever they occur, there shall be substituted “parish or community council”;
(b)in subsection (3) of each of those sections, for the word “authority” there shall be substituted “council”; and
(c)for the words “body to which this section applies” in subsection (4) of section 173 there shall be substituted “parish or community council”.