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Rating (Scotland) Act 1926

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24Cost of levying and collecting rates

The expenses incurred by a rating authority in levying, collecting, recovering, and, so far as necessary, paying over all rates levied and collected by them shall be defrayed—

(a)in the case of a town council out of the general improvement assessment or such other rate leviable by the council for the purposes of any Act of Parliament administered by them and payable by owners and occupiers in equal proportions as the council may determine, but shall not be reckoned in any calculation as to the statutory limit of that assessment or rate; and

(b)in the case of a county council out of the general purposes rate, but, notwithstanding anything in the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, a police burgh shall not be liable to contribute towards any such expenses of a county council.

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