28Amendment of s. 11(1) of Act of 1954
On and after the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, subsection (1) of section eleven of the Act of 1954 (which section contains provisions relating to the method of allocating the expenditure of any combination of local authorities) shall have effect as if for the words from " any reference " to the end of the subsection there were substituted the following words:—
“any reference in that provision to the rateable valuation of an area, or part of an area, of an authority shall be construed—
(a)where the area is a county the council of which are charged under any enactment with providing the service to which the combination relates in one or more burghs, as a reference to an amount calculated by taking the rateable valuation of the landward area of the county, or that part thereof as aforesaid, or its standard rateable value, whichever is the higher, and adding thereto the rateable valuation or the standard rateable value, whichever is the higher, of each burgh situated in the county or such part thereof, being a burgh within which the county council are charged with providing the said service;
(b)in any other case as a reference to the rateable valuation of that area, or that part of that area, or to its standard rateable value, whichever is the higher”.