Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944

7 Application to Scotland.

This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications :—

(1) for any reference to the Minister of Health there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State ;

(2) in the application of section one—

for subsections (5) and (6) the following subsections shall be respectively substituted :—

“(5) Any contributions made by the Secretary of State, under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament and shall not, in the aggregate, exceed six million three hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds.

(6) Local authorities for the purposes of this section shall be—

(a) the council of any burgh or county ;

(b) a combination of any such councils whether constituted under the [60 & 61 Vict. c. 38.] Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, or otherwise for the purposes of the provision of a common water supply or of works in regard to sewerage ;”

(3) in the application of section three—

(i) the expression " local authority " means a county or town council or a combination of any such councils whether constituted under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, or otherwise for the purposes of the provision-of a common water supply, or any board or any trustees or other body constituted under a local Act for the purposes of the provision of a water supply ;

(ii) proviso (b) to subsection (1) shall have effect as if any reference to the council of the county were omitted ;

(iii) for subsection (2) the following subsection shall be substituted:—

“(2) The obligations imposed by this section shall, for the purposes of section one hundred and forty-seven of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897 (which makes-provision for refusal or neglect of a local authority), be deemed to be imposed by that Act”.

(iv) subsection (3) shall not apply ;

(4) sections two, four, five and six shall not apply.