Local authority apportionments etc.
12Apportionments, allocations etc. relating to local authorities.
(1)The Secretary of State may as respects the year 1966-67 or any subsequent year make such estimates for any area of the product of a rate of one penny in the pound and the standard penny rate product as he considers necessary, and those products so estimated shall then apply for the purpose of making the calculations, apportionments and allocations referred to in section 7(1) of the Act of 1963, or as the case may be, any adjustments required thereto.
(2)In the year 1966-67 and in each subsequent year of revaluation, the calculations, apportionments and allocations referred to in section 7(1) of the Act of 1963 shall be made and adjusted by reference to the product of a rate of one penny in the pound and to the standard penny rate product estimated in relation to that year.
13Amendment of the Act of 1963.
As respects the year 1967-68 and subsequent years the Act of 1963 shall have effect as follows—
(a)Section 9(4) of the Act of 1963 (which relates to the determination of the governing factor) shall be amended by omitting the words " apart from section 3 of this Act " and by substituting for the words from " that part " to the end of the subsection the words " the whole of the resources element (within the meaning of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966) for that year."
(b)Section 9(5) of the Act of 1963 (which relates to the determination of weighted population) shall be amended by substituting for the words " in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act " the words " in such manner as may be prescribed by a rate support grant order made under section 3 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966."
(c)Schedule 2 to the Act of 1963 (which relates to weighting of population) shall cease to have effect.
14Effect of alteration of boundaries on apportionments etc.
(1)Where an alteration in the boundaries of the area of a local authority has occurred, and effect has been given or is being given to that alteration in the valuation roll for any year, then for the purpose of making for that year any such calculation, apportionment or allocation as is referred to in section 7(1) of the Act of 1963, the calculation for that area of the product of a rate of one penny in the pound and of the standard penny rate product for the year preceding that year shall be revised to take account of the effect of that alteration.
(2)In section 218(1) of the [1947 c. 43.] Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 the words from "with such adjustments " to the word " current" and the words from " For the purposes of this subsection " to the end of the subsection shall cease to have effect.