26(1)In paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (qualifying conditions for liability to pay community water charges) there shall be added at the end “and
(c)that the supply of water provided is not one which the water authority were, immediately before 16 May 1949, and continue to be under an obligation to provide free of charge.”
(2)The amendment made by sub-paragraph (1) above shall be deemed to have come into force at the same time as the said paragraph 8.