Local Government and Miscellaneous Financial Provisions (Scotland) Act 1958

6 (1) In section one of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1946, there shall be added at the end the following subsection, that is to say—

“(8) The Secretary of State may make regulations prescribing the standards and general requirements to which every education authority shall conform in exercising their functions under this section.”

(2) Section sixty-nine of the said Act of 1946 shall cease to have effect.

(3) In section seventy of the said Act of 1946—

(a) for the words "The Education (Scotland) Fund in any year shall be applied " there shall be substituted the words " The Secretary of State may, out of moneys provided by Parliament, apply such sums as he thinks necessary ";

(b) in paragraph (1) the words " in so far as such expenses are not provided for from moneys voted by Parliament" shall be omitted ;

(c) paragraph (4) shall cease to have effect;

(d) in paragraph (7) the words " in addition to any sums voted by Parliament for the training of teachers " shall be omitted ;

(e) in paragraph (12) the words " to the application of the balance as nearly as may be " shall be omitted ; and

(f) in paragraph (12) after the words " education authorities " there shall be inserted the words " not being relevant expenditure for the purposes of Part I of the Local Government and Miscellaneous Financial Provisions (Scotland) Act, 1958. "

(4) In section seventy-one of the said Act of 1946, in subsection (1), the words from " The said regulations " to the end of the subsection shall cease to have effect.

(5) In section seventy-six of the said Act of 1946, in subsection (1), the words " from the Education (Scotland) Fund or" shall be omitted.

(6) In section one hundred and three of the said Act of 1946, in subsection (4), after the words "made by the Secretary of State", there shall be inserted the words " or under any enactment, to the body or education authority, or, in the case of an education authority which is a joint county council, to any constituent council thereof, " , and after subsection (5) there shall be added the following subsection, that is to say—

“(6) All sums collected or recovered by the Secretary of State under this section shall be paid into the Exchequer.”

(7) In section one hundred and forty-three, in subsection (1), for the definition of "code" there shall be substituted the following definition, that is to say—

• “' code ' means regulations made under subsection (8) of section one of this Act.”

(8) In the Third Schedule to the said Act of 1946, in paragraph 3 of Part I, there shall be added at the end the words " and may include provision for the treatment as having been paid into the revenue of the account kept under section one hundred and six of this Act of a sum which in the opinion of the Secretary of State represents the employers' interest in the Fund having regard to the sums contributed to the Fund by teachers and employers, to the extent to which the employers' contributions were aided by grant from moneys provided by Parliament and to the expenditure from the Fund. "

(9) In the Fourth Schedule to the said Act of 1946, in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 2, for the words "the Education (Scotland) Fund" there shall be substituted the words " moneys provided by Parliament ".