Scottish Statutory Instruments
2009 No. 41

POLICE
The Police Grant (Variation) (Scotland) Order 2009

Made
9th February 2009

Laid before the Scottish Parliament
10th February 2009

Coming into force
12th March 2009

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 32(3) and (5) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Police Grant (Variation) (Scotland) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 12th March 2009, but article 2 shall have effect from 1st April 2008.

Variation of the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2008

2.  The Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2008(2) is varied as follows–

(a)in article 2 (aggregate amounts of grants for financial year 2008–2009), for “£566,628,000” substitute “£551,253,226”; and

(b)in article 3 (amount of grant to an authority for financial year 2008–2009), for the table contained therein, substitute the following table–

“(1)
(2)

Authority
Amount of Grant

Central Scotland Joint Police Board
£26,586,271

The Dumfries and Galloway Council
£15,240,117

The Fife Council
£32,800,707

Grampian Joint Police Board
£51,008,878

Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board
£98,641,406

Northern Joint Police Board
£28,122,367

Strathclyde Joint Police Board
£257,145,196

Tayside Joint Police Board
£42,408,284”.

KENNY MACASKILL
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
9th February 2009

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2008 for the financial year 2008/09 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 2008 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.


(1)
1967 c. 77; section 32 was substituted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48), section 45(1) and amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820), Schedule 2, paragraph 41(2). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)
S.S.I. 2008/46.