Scottish Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 40
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2000
Made 10th February 2000
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 14th February 2000
Coming into force 2nd March 2000

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by paragraphs 1 and 9 (4) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be appropriate in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule, hereby make the following Order:
1992 c. 14. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). The requirement to obtain Treasury consent was removed by section 55 of that Act.

Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Revenue support grant for 2000-2001
2. (1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.
(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 shall be the amount determined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Distribution of non-domestic rate income for 2000-2001
3. (1) The distributable amount of non-domestic rate income arrived at under paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 is £1,662,691,000.
(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.
(3) The amount of non-domestic rate income distributed to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 shall be that part of the distributable amount for that year determined in relation to that local authority set out in column 3 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revenue support grant for 1999-2000
4. (1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 1999-2000 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order.
(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order in respect of the financial year 1999-2000 shall be the amount redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revocations
5. Article 2 of, and column 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1999 (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of financial year 1999-2000) are hereby revoked.
S.I. 1999/364
JACK McCONNELL
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
10th February 2000

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON-DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2000-2001
Articles 2 and 3
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non-domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	109,580,000	69,193,000
Aberdeenshire	125,353,000	73,477,000
Angus	64,672,000	35,745,000
Argyll & Bute	75,371,000	29,221,000
Clackmannanshire	29,516,000	15,770,000
Dumfries & Galloway	100,882,000	47,835,000
Dundee City	112,781,000	47,637,000
East Ayrshire	79,516,000	39,391,000
East Dunbartonshire	54,295,000	35,582,000
East Lothian	48,491,000	29,087,000
East Renfrewshire	44,979,000	28,571,000
City of Edinburgh	235,204,000	146,193,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	59,035,000	9,073,000
Falkirk	85,108,000	46,799,000
Fife	207,457,000	113,303,000
Glasgow City	537,193,000	201,238,000
Highland	163,735,000	67,644,000
Inverclyde	63,340,000	27,733,000
Midlothian	47,893,000	26,259,000
Moray	54,739,000	27,886,000
North Ayrshire	91,272,000	45,354,000
North Lanarkshire	208,581,000	106,100,000
Orkney Islands	32,029,000	6,349,000
Perth & Kinross	74,577,000	43,204,000
Renfrewshire	110,463,000	57,749,000
Scottish Borders	73,060,000	34,520,000
Shetland Islands	48,483,000	7,440,000
South Ayrshire	65,267,000	37,164,000
South Lanarkshire	187,116,000	99,651,000
Stirling	54,810,000	26,996,000
West Dunbartonshire	69,211,000	30,812,000
West Lothian	94,482,000	49,715,000

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 1999-2000
Article 4
Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount
	£
Aberdeen City	112,123,000
Aberdeenshire	133,433,000
Angus	68,625,000
Argyll & Bute	76,818,000
Clackmannanshire	30,988,000
Dumfries & Galloway	103,904,000
Dundee City	115,436,000
East Ayrshire	81,329,000
East Dunbartonshire	58,428,000
East Lothian	51,225,000
East Renfrewshire	46,671,000
City of Edinburgh	252,994,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	58,827,000
Falkirk	83,743,000
Fife	215,477,000
Glasgow City	556,575,000
Highland	169,999,000
Inverclyde	65,132,000
Midlothian	50,654,000
Moray	57,821,000
North Ayrshire	92,796,000
North Lanarkshire	213,906,000
Orkney Islands	33,115,000
Perth & Kinross	78,325,000
Renfrewshire	111,436,000
Scottish Borders	75,224,000
Shetland Islands	48,222,000
South Ayrshire	71,156,000
South Lanarkshire	192,607,000
Stirling	58,347,000
West Dunbartonshire	71,795,000
West Lothian	99,912,000

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
This Order–
(a) determines the amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority in Scotland in respect of the financial year 2000-2001 (article 2 and Schedule 1);
(b) determines the amount of non-domestic rate income to be distributed to each local authority in respect of that year (article 3 and Schedule 1);
(c) redetermines the amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 1999-2000 (article 4 and Schedule 2);
(d) makes consequential revocations in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1999 (article 5).