7U.K.After section 55(7) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (limits on expenditure of local authorities outside Greater London in relation to magistrates’ courts) there shall be inserted—
“(7A)Subsection (7) above does not apply in relation to any expenditure or payments whose cost is, or is to be, met by payments under section 38 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 (unified power for Secretary of State to fund speed cameras etc.).”
8(1)Section 57 of that Act (grants by Lord Chancellor to local authorities outside Greater London) shall be amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (1) (grants towards non-capital expenditure) at the end there shall be inserted “ and any expenditure which is, or is to be, met by payments under section 38 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 ”.
(3)In subsection (2) (grants towards capital expenditure) at the end there shall be inserted “ ; and in determining any such expenditure for the purposes of this section there shall be disregarded any capital expenditure which is, or is to be, met by payments under section 38 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 ”.
9U.K.In section 58(1) of that Act (certain local authority land appropriated to magistrates’ courts purposes) after “section 57(2) above” there shall be inserted “ or section 38 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 ”.
10U.K.After section 59B(7) of that Act (funding arrangements for the Greater London Magistrates’ Courts Authority) there shall be inserted—
“(7A)References in this section to the Authority’s expenditure do not include expenditure which is, or is to be, met by payments under section 38 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001.”