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SCHEDULE 10 Consequential Amendments of Enactments
Section 48
Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951
In section 35(1), in the definition of “ local authority”, for the words “Act, 1946” there shall be substituted the words “(Scotland) Act 1968”, and for the words from “subsection (2)” to “ Act, 1897,” there shall be substituted the words “section 34(1) of that Act entitled to exercise any powers”.
New Towns Act 1965
In section 43(b), for the words from “whether” to the end of the paragraph, there shall be substituted the words “before the commencement of the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968 under section 12(1) of the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1946 in its application to Scotland (to which section 37(1) of the said Act of 1968 corresponds), and after the commencement of the said Act of 1968 under the said section 37(1); and”.
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SCHEDULE 10 Consequential Amendments of Enactments
Section 48
Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951
In section 35(1), in the definition of “ local authority”, for the words “Act, 1946” there shall be substituted the words “(Scotland) Act 1968”, and for the words from “subsection (2)” to “ Act, 1897,” there shall be substituted the words “section 34(1) of that Act entitled to exercise any powers”.
New Towns Act 1965
In section 43(b), for the words from “whether” to the end of the paragraph, there shall be substituted the words “before the commencement of the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968 under section 12(1) of the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1946 in its application to Scotland (to which section 37(1) of the said Act of 1968 corresponds), and after the commencement of the said Act of 1968 under the said section 37(1); and”.
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