2010 No. 64
Police

The Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2010

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 32(3) and (5) of the Police (Scotland) Act 19671 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2010 and comes into force on 1st April 2010.

(2)

In this Order—

“authority” means a police authority (not being a constituent authority) or a joint police board;

“financial year 2010-2011” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1st April 2010; and

“police grant” means the grant made under section 32(1) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Art. 1 in force at 1.4.2010, see art. 1(1)

Aggregate amounts of grants for financial year 2010-20112.

The aggregate amount of police grant to be made for the financial year 2010-2011 shall be F1£690,390,000.

Amount of grant to an authority for financial year 2010-20113.

The amount of police grant to be made for the financial year 2010-2011 to each authority specified in column 1 of the Table below shall be the amount determined in relation to that authority which is set out in column 2 of that Table opposite to the name of the authority.

F2(1)

Authority

(2)

Amount of Grant

Central Scotland Joint Police Board

£33,678,000

The Dumfries and Galloway Council

£18,648,000

The Fife Council

£41,487,000

Grampian Joint Police Board

£61,940,000

Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board

£122,044,000

Northern Joint Police Board

£33,515,000

Strathclyde Joint Police Board

£329,001,000

Tayside Joint Police Board

£50,077,000

Payment of grant4.

The police grant payable to an authority by virtue of this Order for the financial year 2010‑2011 shall be paid to that authority in monthly instalments on the fifteenth day of each month during that year.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I4Art. 4 in force at 1.4.2010, see art. 1(1)

KENNY MACASKILL
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order determines—

(a)

the aggregate amount of grants to be made under section 32(1) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 out of money from the Scottish Consolidated Fund for police purposes to all police authorities and joint police boards for the financial year 2010-2011 (article 2); and

(b)

the amount of such grants to be made to each police authority or joint police board (article 3).

The Order also sets out how and when the grant is payable (article 4).