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Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1970 (repealed 1.4.1996) 1970 c. 6
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Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1970 (repealed 1.4.1996)
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In force since 1996-04-01, as the publisher states.
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1 Increase on limits on contributions.
(1) The following shall be substituted for section 1(5) of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 (Government contributions towards expenses of local authorities for rural water supplies and sewerage) as applied to Scotland by section 7 of that Act:— (5) Any contributions made by the Secretary of State under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament, and shall not, in the aggregate, exceed sixty million pounds. (2) The following enactments are hereby repealed, that is to say, section 21 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949, in section 1(3) of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955, the words “as amended by section twenty-one of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949”, in section 2(2) of the said Act of 1955, the words “and section twenty-one of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949”, the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (No. 2) Act 1955 and section 6 of the Local Goverment (Financial Provisions) Act 1963.
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This Act may be cited as the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1970 and extends to Scotland only.
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