The Rate Support Grant (Scotland) (No.3) Order 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order—

(a) in relation to the year 1988-89—

(i) fixes the estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants payable under Part I of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 to regional, islands and district councils in Scotland, and prescribes the division of this amount among the needs element, the domestic element and the estimated resources element (article 2);

(ii) prescribes the amount in the pound by which rating authorities are to reduce the rate in the pound which they would otherwise levy on dwellinghouses in their areas so as to take account of the amount of domestic element for the year (article 4); and

(iii) prescribes matters relating to the distribution of the different parts of the needs element, and the distribution of the resources element, of rate support grants among local authorities (articles 3 and 5);

(b) in relation to the year 1987-88—

(i) redetermines the estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants and varies the amount of the needs element, the domestic element and the estimated amount of the resources element payable for that year (articles 6, 7, 9 and 10);

(ii) varies the needs element distribution (article 8); and

(iii) revokes article 4 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Rate Support Grant (Scotland) (No.2) Order 1987 (article 21);

(c) in relation to the year 1986-87—

(i) redetermines the estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants and varies the amount of the needs element and the estimated amount of the resources element payable for that year (articles 11, 12 and 14);

(ii) varies the needs element distribution (article 13); and

(iii) revokes article 7 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Rate Support Grant (Scotland) (No.2) Order 1987 (article 21);

(d) in relation to the year 1985-86—

(i) redetermines the estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants and varies the amount of the needs element payable for that year (articles 15 and 16);

(ii) varies the needs element distribution (article 17); and

(iii) revokes article 12 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Rate Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1987 (article 21);

(e) in relation to the year 1984-85—

(i) redetermines the estimated aggregate amount of the rate support grants and varies the amount of the needs element payable for that year (articles 18 and 19);

(ii) varies the needs element distribution (article 20); and

(iii) revokes article 15 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Rate Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1987 (article 21).