HC Deb 20 December 1955 vol 547 c1982

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the law regarding valuation and rating in Scotland and to amend the provisions of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1954, with respect to the payment of Exchequer Grants to local authorities in Scotland (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament—

  1. (a) in respect of the year beginning with the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of any subsequent year beginning with the sixteenth day of May, of grants to local authorities in Scotland amounting in the aggregate to a sum which bears the same proportion to the total of the relevant local expenditure (as defined in subsection (2) of section five of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1954) of all the burghs and landward areas in Scotland as the notional Exchequer Grant for Scotland (as calculated in accordance with the provisions of the Act) bears to the notional relevant local expenditure for Scotland (as calculated as aforesaid);
  2. (b) of any increase attributable to the provisions of the Act in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under the Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1954;
  3. (c) of any increase, attributable to the provisions of the Act relating to lands and heritages occupied for the purposes of a police force, in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under section ten of the Police (Scotland) Act, 1946;
  4. (d) of all expenses incurred under the Act by the Secretary of State.

Resolution agreed to.