Section 137.
1So much of section 123 of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1878 as incorporates and applies the words " fly kites " and the words " or play at football tennis fives cricket or any other game or games " in section XCVI of the Act of 1 and 2 Wm. 4. c. 43 as set out in Schedule (C) to the said Act of 1878 shall cease to have effect.
2In Schedule 2 to the Firearms Act 1968 (offences to which sections 17(2) and 18 apply in Scotland) for paragraphs 14 and 15 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“13AOffences against section 57 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982”.
3In the Breeding of Dogs Act 1973—
(a)after the word " breeding " in each place where it occurs, except in sections 5(2), 6 and 7, there shall be inserted the words " or rearing ";
(b)in section 5(2) (interpretation), for the definition of " breeding establishment" there shall be substituted the following definition—
“' breeding or rearing establishment ' means any premises (including a private dwelling) where more than two bitches are kept for the purposes of breeding for sale or where a business of rearing puppies for sale is carried on”; and
(c)in section 6 (transitional), after the word " Act", where secondly occurring, there shall be inserted the words " or the date when it first applied to the rearing of puppies " and after the word " breeding " there shall be inserted the words " or, as the case may be, rearing. ".
4In section 10A of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 (repairs grant), after subsection (5) there shall be added the following subsection—
“(6)References in this section to a house shall, in relation to an application made under this section for a grant in respect of works which are to rectify defects specified in a notice under section 24(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1969, be construed as including references to premises other than a house ; but where such an application relates to such premises—
(a)the local authority shall not, under subsection (2) above, approve the application unless they are satisfied that the premises form part of a building which contains a house or houses and that house or, as the case may be, all these houses will provide satisfactory housing accommodation as mentioned in that subsection;
(b)subsection (4) above shall be construed as if the reference in it to each house were a reference to each of the premises other than a house ; and
(c)subsection (5) above shall be construed as if the enactments excepted by that subsection included sections 3(2) to (5), 9(1), (2), (6), (8) and (9) and (10) of this Act.”.
5In section 79 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (vehicles excluded from regulation as private hire vehicles) for the words " section 270 or 271 of and Schedule 5 to the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892" there shall be substituted the words " sections 10 to 23 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 ".