{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-in-scotland-act-2003/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-in-scotland-act-2003/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/1",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government in Scotland Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-in-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Scottish Ministers' power to pay off loans made to local authorities",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may make to the Treasury, in respect of a local loan made under section 3 of the National Loans Act 1968, or to any other person payment reducing or extinguishing a local authority’s liability to the Treasury or, as the case may be, that other person in respect of a loan made by the Treasury or that other person to the authority for the purposes of capital expenditure.\n(2) If the Scottish Ministers make a payment in pursuance of subsection (1) above they shall—\n(a) prepare a report on their reasons for making that payment; and\n(b) lay that report before the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 38(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 85(2)(a) (with art. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 38(1) substituted (25.2.2020) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/176), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 85(2)(b) (with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/1/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:56.191996+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}