2007 No. 24
POLICE

The Police Grant (Variation) (Scotland) Order 2007

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 32(3) and (5) of the Police (Scotland) Act 19671 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Police Grant (Variation) (Scotland) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 9th March 2007, but article 2 shall have effect from 1st April 2006.

Variation of Police Grant (Scotland) Order 20062.

The Police Grant (Scotland) Order 20062 is amended as follows–

(a)

in article 2 (aggregate amount of grants for financial year 2006 2007), “540,345,960” is substituted for “540,679,000”; and

(b)

in article 3 (amount of grant to an authority for financial year 2006 2007), the following table is substituted for the table contained therein–

“(1)

(2)

Authority

Amount of Grant

Central Scotland Joint Police Board

£25,063,318

Dumfries and Galloway Council

£14,857,307

Fife Council

£30,588,800

Grampian Joint Police Board

£48,822,223

Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board

£95,114,668

Northern Joint Police Board

£27,007,070

Strathclyde Joint Police Board

£257,486,709

Tayside Joint Police Board

£41,405,865”.

CATHY JAMIESON
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2006 for the financial year 2006/07 to state the actual aggregate police grant and the amounts of police grant paid to each police authority and joint police board in respect of that financial year, as redetermined on the basis of audited accounts.

A redetermination of the police grant is carried out because the police grant as stated in the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2006 was based on estimated budget figures. Upon receipt of audited accounts, the Scottish Ministers have substituted audited figures into the formula used to calculate the police grant and the amount of police grant has been redetermined accordingly.

A report on the considerations taken into account by the Scottish Ministers in making the redetermination has been prepared and laid before the Scottish Parliament in accordance with section 32(6) and (9) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967.