The Council Tax Limitation (Maximum Amounts) (England) Order 2010

Draft Order laid before Parliament under section 52Q(6)(a) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, for approval by resolution of the House of Commons.

Draft Statutory Instruments

2010 No.

Council Tax, England

The Council Tax Limitation (Maximum Amounts) (England) Order 2010

Made

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1)

This Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 52Q(2) and (6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1).

The Secretary of State, pursuant to section 52P(2)(a) of that Act, designated Warwickshire police authority as regards the financial year beginning in 2010.

The Secretary of State notified the authority in writing pursuant to section 52P(4) of that Act of the decision to designate it, the amount which the Secretary of State proposed should be the maximum for the amount calculated by it as its budget requirement for the year, the target amount for the year (that is the maximum amount which the Secretary of State proposed it could calculate as its budget requirement for the year without the amount calculated being excessive), the information taken into account by the Secretary of State under section 52P(3)(c) of that Act, the financial year as regards which the Secretary of State expected the amount calculated by it as its budget requirement for that year to be equal to or less than the target amount for that year, and the period within which the authority was able to inform the Secretary of State that it challenged or accepted the amount which the Secretary of State proposed should be the maximum for the amount calculated by it as its budget requirement for the year.

Warwickshire police authority informed the Secretary of State by notice in writing under section 52P(8)(a) of that Act that for the reasons stated in the notice it believed the maximum amount stated under section 52P(4)(b) of that Act should be such as was stated in its notice.

The Secretary of State has considered the information supplied by the authority (being information of a kind and provided in a form specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 52Q of the Act) and such other information as the Secretary of State thinks is relevant.

In accordance with section 52Q(6)(a) of that Act a draft of this Order was laid before and approved by resolution of the House of Commons.

The Secretary of State makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Council Tax Limitation (Maximum Amounts) (England) Order 2010 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(2) This Order applies to authorities in England only(2).

Maximum amounts

2.  The amount which the amount calculated by Warwickshire police authority as its budget requirement for the financial year beginning in 2010 is not to exceed is £90,395,000.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and local Government

2010

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order applies to Warwickshire police authority. It states the amount which the amount calculated by the authority as its budget requirement for the financial year beginning in 2010 is not to exceed.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as the Secretary of State cannot make assumptions as to which services and activities may be affected when an authority calculates its budget requirement for a financial year.

(1)

1992 c.14. Sections 52A to 52Z of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 were inserted by section 30 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Act 1999 (c.27).

(2)

Functions under Chapter IVA of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 are exercisable by the Secretary of State only in relation to authorities in England. In relation to authorities in Wales, these functions are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers: see article 3 of, and paragraph 44 of Schedule 1 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1388).