1. This Order may be cited as the River Purification Boards (Establishment) Variation (Scotland) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 12th January 1989.

2. In this Order, "the Establishment Orders" means the Orders specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 to this Order.

3. For article 7(1) of each of the Establishment Orders there shall be substituted-

"(1) For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Act of 1951, the Board's expenses shall be defrayed by the councils of the regions whose areas are comprised wholly or partly in the river purification board area and shall be apportioned and allocated among the said regions in the proportions stated against the names of the Board and the said regions in columns (1), (2) and (3) respectively of Schedule 2 to the River Purification Boards (Establishment) Variation (Scotland) Order 1989.".

4. Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect for the purposes of article 7(1) of each of the Establishment Orders, as substituted by article 3 of this Order.

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

River purification boards' annual expenses are at present apportioned among the regional councils concerned on the basis of the "penny rate product". This basis will no longer be available on the abolition of domestic rates as from 1st April 1989. The Order substitutes in the river purification boards' Establishment Orders fixed proportions as a basis for apportionment. Where river purification boards' areas include only a small part of a regional council's area, the apportionment against that council is nil.