The following provisions of Part XX of the [1947 c. 43.] Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 shall apply to a board for the purposes of this Act as those provisions apply to a local authority for the purposes of that Act: section 336 (contracts and obligations), section 337 (protection of members and officers), section 345 (appearance in legal proceedings), section 346 (service of legal proceedings and notices), section 348 (claims in sequestrations and liquidations), section 349 (service of notices), section 350 (evidence of resolutions etc.), section 352 (misnomers), and subsection (1) of section 366 (provisions as to Sundays, etc.).

In this Schedule " board " means a regional water board or a water development board, and " area " means the region or the area, as the case may be, of such a board.