(1)As from the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, the amounts of the respective contributions payable by royal, parliamentary, and police burghs under subsection (4) of section sixty of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, shall be ascertained on the basis of the rateable values of the properties within the respective burghs and within the county according to the valuation roll.
(2)Section sixty-six of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 (which relates to requisitions and payments of burgh contributions to county funds), whether for the purposes of that Act or of any other Act by which it is applied, shall have effect as if the fifteenth day of July were therein substituted for the month of October.
(3)The general meeting of a county council which is required by subsection (2) of section seventy-three of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, to be held in the month of October, and at which, under section seventy-one of the said Act, the annual budget of the county council is required to be submitted may, if the county council so determine, by passing a resolution to that effect at a meeting of which due notice shall be given, be held on such day before the month of October as the county council may from time to time determine, and the provisions of the said subsection and of the said section seventy-one shall have effect accordingly.
(4)The sum of fifty thousand pounds which, under subsection (4) of section two of the [55 & 56 Vict. c. 51.] Education and Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act, 1892, is to be distributed among parish councils shall, instead of being applied to the relief of local rates as therein provided, be applied in reduction of the expenditure incurred by the parish councils respectively for the purposes of their powers and duties under the Acts administered by them in such manner as they may determine.
(5)Section thirty-seven of the [57 & 58 Vict. c. 58.] Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894 (which relates to the local annual budget of parish councils), shall have effect as if the month of June were therein substituted for the month of July.
(6)The statutory powers of a rating authority to borrow temporarily in connection with current annual expenditure in anticipation of the rates applicable to such expenditure shall be deemed to include power to borrow for the purposes of meeting any sum, so far as uncollected, payable in accordance with the provisions of this Act to a parish council, education authority or district board of control under a certificate by or on account of that council, authority or board, and that upon the security of the rates leviable by the rating authority for the purposes of Acts of Parliament administered by them and also, so far as uncollected at the time, the parish, education and lunacy rates which have been levied by them and any sum borrowed under the provisions of this subsection shall not be reckoned in any calculation as to the limit of the amount that may be borrowed under the foresaid statutory powers.