The Budget (Scotland) Act 2006 Amendment Order 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Budget (Scotland) Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”), which makes provision, for the financial year 2006/07, for the use of resources by the Scottish Administration and certain bodies whose expenditure is payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund, for authorising the use of resources, and for limits on the capital expenditure of and borrowing of local authorities and certain other public bodies.

In particular, this Order further amends the 2006 Act so as to–

(a) alter the overall cash authorisations in respect of four of the five bodies referred to in section 3 of the 2006 Act (article 2(2));

(b) restate the purposes for which resources may be used in accordance with section 1 of and schedule 1 to the 2006 Act (article 2(3)(a));

(c) restate the amount of resources other than accruing resources that may be used for purposes 1-13 set out in schedule 1 to the 2006 Act (article 2(3)(b)(i) to (xiii));

(d) add a type of accruing resources which may be used for the fourth purpose set out in schedule 1 to the 2006 Act (article 2(3)(c));

(e) restate the amounts of accruing resources in schedule 1 to the 2006 Act in respect of the first to sixth type of accruing resources (article 2(3)(d)(i) to (vi));

(f) add types of accruing resource in Parts 1 and 2 of schedule 2 which may be used respectively by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department and the Scottish Executive Development Department (article 2(4)(a) and (b)(i)-(ii));

(g) alter the overall amounts of accruing resources in Parts 2 to 12 of schedule 2 which may be used by the bodies referred to therein without individual limit (article 2(4)(b) to (l));

(h) alter in schedule 3 in relation to the first directly funded body referred to therein the overall amount of resources other than accruing resources and the accruing resources which may be used for the purposes specified and in relation to the fourth directly funded body the purposes for which resources may be used and the overall amount of resources other than accruing resources which may be used for the purposes specified (article 2(5)); and

(i) alter in schedule 4 in Part 1 in respect of the Forestry Commissioners, and in Part 4 in respect of Audit Scotland, the overall amounts of accruing resources those bodies may use without individual limit (article 2(6)).