2In section 10 (compensation for damage by riot), for the words " town clerk of the city or burgh within which " there shall be substituted the words " regional or islands council within whose area " ; and the words from " or the clerk of supply " to " city or burgh", where they occur second, shall cease to have effect; and for the words from " the justices " onwards there shall be substituted the words " any competent court in Scotland ".