Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Police Grant (Variation) (Scotland) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 9th March 2007, but article 2 shall have effect from 1st April 2006.

Variation of Police Grant (Scotland) Order 20062

The Police Grant (Scotland) Order 20062 is amended as follows–

a

in article 2 (aggregate amount of grants for financial year 2006 2007), “540,345,960” is substituted for “540,679,000”; and

b

in article 3 (amount of grant to an authority for financial year 2006 2007), the following table is substituted for the table contained therein–

(1)

(2)

Authority

Amount of Grant

Central Scotland Joint Police Board

£25,063,318

Dumfries and Galloway Council

£14,857,307

Fife Council

£30,588,800

Grampian Joint Police Board

£48,822,223

Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board

£95,114,668

Northern Joint Police Board

£27,007,070

Strathclyde Joint Police Board

£257,486,709

Tayside Joint Police Board

£41,405,865

CATHY JAMIESONA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh