Cancer Act 1939

7 Application to Scotland

The following provisions shall have effect for the purpose of the application of this Act to Scotland :—

(a) section one of this Act (except subsection (7) thereof) and section two of this Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications :—

(i) for any reference to England and Wales there shall be substituted a reference to Scotland;

(ii) for any reference to a county borough there shall be substituted a reference to a large burgh within the meaning of the [19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 25.] Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, and every other burgh shall be deemed to be included in the county in which it is situated;

(iii) any reference to a county or to a county council shall, in the case of counties combined for the purposes mentioned in subsection (7) of section ten of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, be construed as a reference to the combined county or to the joint county council;

(iv) for references to the Local Government Act, 1929, and to section one hundred and four, section one hundred and thirty-five and Part VI thereof, there shall be substituted respectively references to the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, and to section sixty-six, section seventy-eight and Part III thereof; for any reference to section one of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1937, there shall be substituted a reference to section one of the [1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 29.] Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1937; and for any reference to the thirty-first day of March there shall be substituted a reference to the fifteenth day of May;

(b) for any reference to the Minister of Health, except in section three of this Act, there shall be substituted a reference to the Department of Health for Scotland;

(c) a county or a town council may, for the purpose of any arrangements made by it and approved by the Department of Health for Scotland under section one of this Act, exercise the like powers as the council is entitled to exercise for the purpose of provision of hospitals for persons suffering from infectious disease;

(d) any expenses incurred by a county or a town council for the purposes of this Act shall be defrayed in like manner as expenditure incurred by such council under the [60 & 61 Vict. c. 38.] Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897;

(e) section one hundred and forty-seven of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, shall have effect as if section one of this Act were part of that Act;

(f) subsection (7) of section four shall not apply.