{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1947/section-216",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1947/section-216.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/10-11/43",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1947",
  "path": "section/216",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "216",
  "heading": "Requisitions by joint committees and joint boards.",
  "text": "Every joint committee or joint board the expenses of which are defrayed in whole or in part by the local authorities concerned shall, notwithstanding anything in any enactment, order or agreement, by such date as may be prescribed, cause a requisition to be sent to each of the authorities concerned requiring the authority to pay to the joint committee or joint board the sum specified in the requisition, being the authority’s proportion of the expenses of the joint committee or joint board; and the authority shall, at such intervals and by such instalments as may be prescribed, pay over to the joint committee or joint board the sum so requisitioned, so far as payable by the authority, without any deduction whatever, so however that the last instalment shall be payable not later than the first day of May in the year first occurring after the date of the requisition, and any provisions contained in any enactment or statutory order inconsistent with this subsection shall cease to have effect.\nIn this section—\n(a) references to a joint committee or joint board shall be construed as references to a joint committee or joint board all the members of which, other than ex officio members, are appointed by one or more local authorities;\n(b) “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 111 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 122, Sch. 9 para. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 122, Sch. 9 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 122, Sch. 9 para. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 216 applied with modifications by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 135(9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 216 extended by Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 47, SIF 81:2), s. 25(2), Sch. 5 para. 22(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/43/section/216",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:51.655435+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."
}