{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1975-local-authority-borrowing-limit-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1975-local-authority-borrowing-limit-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1900",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 (Local Authority Borrowing Limit) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1975-local-authority-borrowing-limit-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Local authority borrowing limit",
  "text": "The aggregate of the amount outstanding on bills issued by a local authority under paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 3 to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 shall not under paragraph 6(2)(a) of Schedule 3 to the Act exceed a sum equal to one third of the authority’s estimated gross income from rates, the council tax and the council water charge during the current year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 6(2)(a) of Schedule 3 was amended by paragraph 34 of Schedule 1 to the Abolition of Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 47) and by paragraph 44(a) of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1900/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:47.960611+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."
}