The Police (Grant) (Amendment) Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1182

POLICE

The Police (Grant) (Amendment) Order 1989

Made

7th July 1989

Laid before Parliament

17th July 1989

Coming into force

14th August 1989

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 31 and 60(2) of the Police Act 1964(1), I hereby, with the approval of the Treasury, make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Police (Grant) (Amendment) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 14th August 1989.

2.  The Police (Grant) Order 1966(2) shall be amended by inserting in article 4, after paragraph (1)(a), the following sub-paragraph:

“(aa) in article 1(1) for the proportion “51 per cent” there were substituted the proportion “52 per cent”;”.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

30th June 1989

We approve

Kenneth Carlisle

David Maclean

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

7th July 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Police (Grant) Order 1966 to increase, from 51 per cent to 52 per cent of the expenses incurred for police purposes, the rate of grant payable in respect of the metropolitan police district. This provision replaces the Imperial and National Services Grant under section 1 of the Police Act 1909 (c. 40), which has been discontinued.

(1)

1964 c. 48.

(2)

S.I. 1966/223; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1974/2184, 1986/455.