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Application to Scotland

43. This Act shall apply to Scotland, subject to the following modifications:—

(1) Unless the context otherwise requires—

(a) The word "borough" except as used in the expression "parliamentary borough" means "burgh";

(b) The expression "local government electoral area" means the area for which any county council, town council, parish council, or school board, is elected, and "local government election" means an election for any such council or board;

(c) The expression "the Local Government Board" (except where otherwise expressly provided) means the Secretary for Scotland;

(d) The expression "Valuation Acts" means the, and any Acts amending the same;

(e) The expression "governing body" used in relation to a university means the university court;

(f) A reference to the Supreme Court shall be construed as a reference to the Court of Session;

(g) A reference to the Court of Appeal shall be construed as a reference to the court of three judges of the Court of Session constituted by the twenty-third section of the ;

(h) A reference to the county court shall be construed as a reference to the sheriff court:

(2) The yearly value of any subjects shall be taken to be the value appearing in the valuation roll where those subjects are separately valued in that roll, and in any other case shall be deemed to be the value which would in the opinion of the registration officer be entered therein if they were so valued:

(3) The section of this Act relating to local government franchise (men) shall not apply, and in lieu thereof—

(a) A man who is of full age and not subject to any legal incapacity shall be entitled to be registered as a local government elector for a local government electoral area if he is on the last day of the qualifying period and has been during the whole of that period

(i) the owner of lands and heritages within the area of the yearly value of not less than ten pounds: Where such lands and heritages are in the joint ownership of two of more persons and the aggregate yearly value of the lands and