9Application to Scotland
This Act shall, in its application to Scotland, have effect subject to the following modifications—
(a)for references to the Minister of Health there shall be substituted references to the Secretary of State ;
(b)for references to the Fourth Schedule to the Local Government Act, 1933, there shall be substituted references to the provisions of section one hundred and twenty of the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 50.] Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, or of the Second Schedule to the [16 & 17 Geo. 5 c. 47.] Rating (Scotland) Act, 1926, and paragraph (i) of subsection (1) of section seven of the [19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 25.] Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929;
(c)in section two, for subsection (4) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(4)The provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to claims for compensation under this section.”;
(d)in subsection (1) of section six for the words " sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 4 of the said Schedule " there shall be substituted the words " the said provisions ";
(e)in paragraph 1 of the Schedule the reference to a justice of the peace shall be construed as including a reference to the convener or vice-convener of a county council, to the provost or acting chief magistrate of a burgh or to the chairman of a district council; and
(f)the provisions of paragraph (i) of subsection (1) of section seven of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, shall have effect in relation to the computation of the service of an officer for the purposes of the Schedule to this Act.