Section 27 Interpretation.

This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision, any reference in the principal Act . . . F1 to—

In this Act the expression “principal Act” means the M1Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950.

Any reference in this Act to a provision of the principal Act shall include a reference to the corresponding provision of any enactment repealed by that Act.

Any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by any subsequent enactment, including this Act.

Any provision of this Act containing a reference to the sixteenth day of May shall, in its application to a local authority whose financial year begins on a day other than the sixteenth day of May, have effect with the substitution for the said reference of a reference to that other day.