Section 48.
1Section 24(1) shall have effect in relation to the year 1967-68 and subsequent years as if any reference therein (as substituted by paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 4 to the [1958 c. 64.] Local Government and Miscellaneous Financial Provisions (Scotland) Act 1958) to a general grant payable under that Act were a reference to the needs element of the rate support grant payable under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966.
2After section 94(2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2AA)In ascertaining the gross charge aforesaid for Scotland for any year the Secretary of State shah treat the aggregate amount of the domestic element of rate support grants for that year as an amount required to be paid by virtue of the rates levied for that year by authorities in Scotland.”
3In section 243(1), after the words " local Act" there shall be inserted the words " or in Part II of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 ".
4In paragraph 8 of Schedule 7, after the words " previous year " there shall be inserted the words " and by way of sums paid in respect of the domestic element of rate support grant for the district concerned " ,
and at the end of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words " (disregarding any reduction in the amount of the rate made in pursuance of section 7 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966). "
5In section 54(1), in the definition of " grant-aided function ", for the words " Local Government and Miscellaneous Financial Provisions (Scotland) Act 1958 " there shall be substituted (in relation to the year 1967-68 and subsequent years) the words " section 2 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 ".