{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-and-rating-scotland-act-1956/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-and-rating-scotland-act-1956/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/60",
  "legislation_title": "Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-and-rating-scotland-act-1956",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Contributions in aid of rates by Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses may incur expenses in making contributions in aid of rates in respect of lands and heritages belonging to them, being lands and heritages in respect of which no rates are paid and which consist of dwelling–houses occupied by officers of the said Commissioners other than dwelling–houses which . . . either form part of a lighthouse or are situated within the curtilage thereof.\n(2) Any contribution under this section shall be paid out of the General Lighthouse Fund and shall be treated as money paid as rates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 122, Sch. 9 para. 48, Sch. 29"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/60/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:28.409533+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."
}