Local Government Finance Act 1987

Total expenditure 1985-86

3 (1) In doing any of the acts mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below the Secretary of State shall treat the relevant amount as the amount of an English local authority’s total expenditure in relation to the relevant year.

(2) The acts are—

(a) making any determination or doing any other thing after the passing of this Act for the purposes of any relevant report, and

(b) making under section 66(1) of the 1980 Act the first estimate and notification to be made after the passing of this Act as regards the authority concerned for the relevant year.

(3) Where an amount estimated as an authority’s total expenditure in relation to the relevant year was submitted to the Secretary of State by the authority—

(a) before 11th December 1986, and

(b) in response to a requirement made under section 65 of the 1980 Act in April 1986,

for the purposes of this paragraph the relevant amount is (as regards the authority) the amount submitted.

(4) Where in the case of an authority no amount was submitted as mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) above but an amount estimated as the authority’s total expenditure in relation to the relevant year was submitted to the Secretary of State by the authority—

(a) before 11th December 1986, and

(b) in response to a requirement made under section 65 of the 1980 Act in February 1985,

for the purposes of this paragraph the relevant amount is (as regards the authority) the amount mentioned in sub-paragraph (5) or (6) below (as the case may be).

(5) Where sub-paragraph (4) above applies in the case of an authority which is not a local education authority, the amount is the amount submitted.

(6) Where sub-paragraph (4) above applies in the case of an authority which is a local education authority, the amount is the amount submitted as adjusted by a method determined by the Secretary of State; and the method shall be determined in accordance with principles to be applied to all authorities affected by the adjustment.

(7) Where in the case of an authority more than one amount was submitted as mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) above, for the purposes of that sub-paragraph the amount submitted shall be taken to be the latest to be so submitted.

(8) In this paragraph “the relevant year” means the year beginning in 1985.

(9) For the purposes of this paragraph relevant reports are—

(a) the report mentioned in paragraph 1(4)(a) above, and

(b) any report proposed to be made in substitution (directly or indirectly) for the report mentioned in paragraph 1(8)(a) above.

(10) In its application in relation to the Greater London Council, the Inner London Education Authority or a metropolitan county council, this paragraph shall have effect as if the second reference to the authority in sub-paragraph (3) included a reference to the London Residuary Body or (as the case may be) the body established for the metropolitan county by section 57(1)(b) of the [1985 c. 51.] Local Government Act 1985.