# Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1970 (repealed 1.4.1996)

1970 c. 6 · enacted 26 February 1970 · revised to 1 April 1996

An Act to increase the limit on the contributions payable to local authorities in Scotland under the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944.

PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-scotland-act-1970-repealed-141996/pdf/ukpga_19700006_en.pdf

## Introductory text



## 1 Increase on limits on contributions.

(1) The following shall be substituted for section 1(5) of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 (Government contributions towards expenses of local authorities for rural water supplies and sewerage) as applied to Scotland by section 7 of that Act:—
“(5) Any contributions made by the Secretary of State under this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament, and shall not, in the aggregate, exceed sixty million pounds.”
(2) The following enactments are hereby repealed, that is to say, section 21 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949, in section 1(3) of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955, the words “as amended by section twenty-one of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949”, in section 2(2) of the said Act of 1955, the words “and section twenty-one of the Water (Scotland) Act 1949”, the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (No. 2) Act 1955 and section 6 of the Local Goverment (Financial Provisions) Act 1963.

## 2 Short title and extent.

This Act may be cited as the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1970 and extends to Scotland only.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-scotland-act-1970-repealed-141996
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