{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/26",
  "legislation_title": "Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 (repealed 1.4.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland.",
  "text": "This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications:—\n(1) for any reference to the Secretary of State there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State;\n(2) in the application of section one—\nfor subsections (5) and (6) the following subsections shall be respectively substituted:\n“[(5)Any contributions made under this section shall be defrayed out of money provided by Parliament,]\n(6) Local authorities for the purposes of this section shall be—\n(a) the council of any region or islands area;\n(b) a combination of any such councils whether constituted under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, or otherwise for the purposes . . . of works in regard to sewerage;\n(c) any board or any trustees or other body constituted under a local Act for the purposes . . . of sewerage;”\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) sections two, four, five and six shall not apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reference to the Secretary of State substituted for reference to the Minister of Health by virtue of S.I. 1951/142 (1951 I, p. 1348), arts. 3, 5(2), Sch. Pt. I, 1951/1900 (1951 I, p. 1347), art. 1, (W.) 1965/319, arts. 2(1), 10(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and 1970/1681, arts. 2, 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Sch. 17 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Water (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 78), Sch. 6 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 7(3) repealed by Water (Scotland) Act 1946 (c. 42), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7 amended by Water (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 78), Sch. 2 para. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/26/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:44.672002+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."
}