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Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997

As Enacted Cited authorities 3 Cited in Amendments 2 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1997/1980
Year1997

1997 No. 1980 (S. 142)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

The Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997

Made 4th August 1997

Laid before Parliament 22th August 1997

Coming into force 1st January 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 105(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 19731and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998.

S-2 Amendment of Regulations

Amendment of Regulations

2. In regulation 4 of the Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 19852, for “31st August” there shall be substituted “30th June”.

Malcolm Chisholm

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

4th August 1997

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 4 of the Local Authority Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 1985 inter alia requires the proper officer of a Scottish local authority to ensure that copies of an abstract of the authority’s accounts for a financial year are submitted to the authority and to the Controller of Audit not later than 31st August in the next financial year. These Regulations amend regulation 4 by substituting “30th June” for “31st August”. The change will first take effect as regards accounts for financial year 1997/98.

(1) 1973 c. 65; section 105(1) was amended by the Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 31), section 10(2).
(2) S.I. 1985/267.

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