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Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929
1929 CHAPTER 25 19 and 20 Geo 5
An Act to transfer to county councils and to the town councils of certain burghs in Scotland functions of existing local authorities relating to poor relief, lunacy and mental deficiency, education, public health, and other matters; to amend the law relating to local government in Scotland; to extend the application of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, to lands and heritages in which no persons are employed, to net and cruive salmon fishings and to minerals let but unworked; to grant relief from rates in the case of the lands and heritages in Scotland to which that Act applies; to discontinue grants from the Exchequer for certain purposes in Scotland and to provide other grants in lieu thereof; and for purposes consequential on the matters aforesaid.
[10th May 1929]
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C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
C2Act explained by National Heritage (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 16, SIF 78), s. 20(1)(3)
C3Act modified (S.) by Dockyard Services Act 1986 (c. 52, SIF 58), s. 3(1)(c), and by Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 47, SIF 77:2), s. 1, Sch. 1 para. 1(4)
C4Act applied (prosp.) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), 111(9), 119(2) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))
C5Act applied (1.4.1992) by Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 60), s. 22(3) (as substituted by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 117(1), Sch. 13, para. 10 (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))); S.I. 1992/818, art. 2(a)
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I1Part II (ss. 44-51) in force at 16.5.1929 by s. 50 (now repealed); Act wholly in force at 16.5.1930 by s. 80(2) (now repealed)
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