Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act 1957

14 Exchequer contributions towards receiving authorities' expenses under town development schemes

(1) Where in the execution of a town development scheme the receiving authority incur expenditure in connection with—

(a) the acquisition of land situated within the area to which the scheme relates or the clearing or preliminary development of land so situated, or

(b) the provision, for the purposes of the scheme, of any water supply or sewerage service,

the Secretary of State shall pay to the receiving authority contributions towards that expenditure of such amounts, and payable in such cases, over such periods and subject to such conditions, as may be determined by or under regulations made by him, in accordance with section one hundred and seventy-three of the principal Act, with the consent of the Treasury.

(2) Regulations made under this section may provide for the payment of contributions thereunder, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be determined by or under the regulations, in respect of land appropriated by a receiving authority for any purpose approved by the Secretary of State in accordance with the regulations, as if the land had been acquired for that purpose at a cost of such amount, and defrayed in such manner, as may be so determined.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this section, any regulations made under this section may provide—

(a) for the inclusion in the expenditure incurred by a receiving authority towards which contributions under this section are to be paid, of any sums, or any part of any sums, paid by the authority in connection with any restriction imposed by or under any enactment on the development or use of any land to which the scheme relates (whether by way of compensation or by way of contribution towards damage or expense incurred in consequence of the restriction);

(b) for the calculation of contributions payable under this section by reference to the amount of the annual costs incurred or treated as being incurred by receiving authorities in respect of the borrowing of money to defray expenditure towards which the contributions are made, or by reference to the excess of such annual costs over such receipts of those authorities, or over the annual value of such receipts, as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(4) In this section the expression " preliminary development in relation to land situated within the area to which a town development scheme relates, means the carrying out of any work determined in accordance with the regulations to be work preparatory to the development of the land for the purposes of executing the scheme, or work comprised in the initial stages of such development.