144Community charge grants: Scotland
The following section shall be inserted after section 23 of the [1987 c. 47.] Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987—
“PART IIIACOMMUNITY CHARGE GRANTS
23ACommunity charge grants
(1)If regulations under section 9A have effect in respect of a financial year, the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, pay a grant to a local authority in respect of that year.
(2)The amount of the grant shall be such as the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine.
(3)A grant under this section shall be paid at such time, or in instalments of such amounts and at such times, as the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine.
(4)In making any payment of grant under this section the Secretary of State may impose such conditions as he may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine; and the conditions may relate to the repayment in specified circumstances of all or part of the amount paid, or otherwise.
(5)In deciding whether to pay a grant under this section, and in determining the amount of any such grant, the Secretary of State shall have regard to his estimate of the aggregate of—
(c)any amount which, in consequence of the regulations, the local authority might reasonably be expected to lose, or to have lost, by way of payments in respect of community charges in respect of the financial year concerned; and
(d)any administrative expenses the local authority might reasonably be expected to incur, or to have incurred, in respect of the financial year in giving effect to the regulations.”