(This Note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Budget (Scotland) Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”), which makes provision, for financial year 2002/03, 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, the Order amends that Act so as to–
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alter for the purposes of section 4(2) of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) 2000, the overall cash authorisations for Financial Year 2002/03 as regards respectively the Scottish Administration, the Food Standards Agency, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, and Audit Scotland (Article 2(2)(a)–(e)).
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alter the maximum amount for the purposes of section 94(5) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (which provides for limits on the amount of capital expenses which may be incurred by local authorities in any financial year) (Article 2(3));
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re-state the purposes for which resources may be used in accordance with section 1 and Schedule 1 to the 2002 Act, with the following changes, Articles 2(4)(a), (e), (h), (j) and (n);
a
to enable resources to be used by the Scottish Ministers through the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (formerly the Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department) on loans to Scottish Water and on the payment of liability to SCF by the Department in respect of SCF loans;
b
to enable resources to be used by the Scottish Ministers (through the Scottish Executive Development Department) on supporting people grants, and the start up costs of the Scottish Building Standards Agency;
c
to enable resources to be used by the Scottish Ministers (through the Scottish Executive Education Department) on associated social work services including the Scottish Social Services Council;
d
for the use by the Scottish Ministers (through the Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department) on grant in aid for the Student Loans Scheme and Related Costs; and
e
to enable resources to be used by Scottish Ministers (through the Scottish Executive Health Department) on repayment of public dividend capital.
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re-state the amounts of resources other than accruing resources that maybe used for the eleven purposes set out in column 1 of Schedule 1;
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re-state the type of accruing resources in Schedule 1 which maybe used in respect of items 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7;
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alter in Part 1 of Schedule 2 the purpose which the Scottish Ministers through the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department may use item 8 type of accruing resources, namely on expenditure on Scottish Water in place of the previous water and sewerage authorities;
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alter in Part 2 of Schedule 2 as regards item 2 the type of accuring resources which may be used by the Scottish Ministers through the Scottish Executive Development Department to include receipts of the Scottish Ministers' share of the proceeds of the sale of Northern Isles vessels;
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to add in Part 2 of Schedule 2 one further item 8 of accruing resource in column 1 namely sums received from local authorities in respect of housing stock transfers with the corresponding purpose in column 2 of repayment of PWLB debt;
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alter the overall amount of accruing resources in Part 1 to 7 and 10 of Schedule 2 which may be used by the bodies referred to therein without individual limits;
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alter in Schedule 3 the amount of resources other than accruing resources which the first and fourth named directly funded bodies referred to therein may use for the purposes specified therein;
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in relation to Audit Scotland in Schedule 3 to extend the type of accruing resources which may be used to include sales from furniture;
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alter in Schedule 4, Part 4, the overall amount of accruing resources which may be used by Audit Scotland for the purposes referred to therein; and
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substitute the current borrowing powers of Scottish Water in place of the new water and sewerage authorities and restate the amount which Scottish Water may borrow.