Justices of the Peace Act 1968

6 Provisions applying to Scotland

(1) Section 4 of this Act, except subsection (5), shall have effect in relation to Scotland as well as in relation to England and Wales ; but otherwise the foregoing sections of this Act shall not extend to Scotland.

(2) In relation to Scotland section 4 (supplemental list) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1949 shall have effect with the substitution in subsection (4)(a) of a reference to seventy years of age for the reference to seventy-five years of age:

Provided that this subsection shall not come into force until the year 1969, and as regards that and the three following years shall apply as if the reference to an age of seventy years were a reference for 1969 to an age of seventy-four years, for 1970 to an age of seventy-three years, for 1971 to an age of seventy-two years and for 1972 to an age of seventy-one years.

(3) The following enactments are hereby repealed in relation to Scotland to the extent mentioned (but only from the coming into force of section 4 above), that is to say—

(a) the Justices of the Peace Act 1949, section 8(3)(a) and in section 8(4) the words " at the time his salary is determined " ;

(b) the [1961 c. 43.] Public Authorities (Allowances) Act 1961, section 7.