Scottish Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 19
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2005
Made 19th January 2005
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 20th January 2005
Coming into force 4th February 2005

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1 and 9(4) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be appropriate in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule, hereby make the following Order:
1992 c. 14. 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). The requirement to obtain Treasury consent was removed by section 55 of that Act.

Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2005 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Revenue support grant for 2005–2006
2. (1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2005–2006 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1.
(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 in respect of the financial year 2005–2006 shall be the amount determined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Distribution of non-domestic rate income for 2005–2006
3. (1) The distributable amount of non-domestic rate income arrived at under paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 in respect of the financial year 2005–2006 is £1,897,073,000.
(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non-domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2005–2006 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 1.
(3) The amount of non-domestic rate income distributed to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 in respect of the financial year 2005–2006 shall be that part of the distributable amount for that year determined in relation to that local authority set out in column 3 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revenue support grant for 2004–2005
4. (1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2004–2005 are specified in column 1 of Schedule 2.
(2) The amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 in respect of the financial year 2004–2005 shall be the amount redetermined in relation to that local authority set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of that local authority.

Revocations
5. Article 2 of, and column 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2004 (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of financial year 2004–2005) are hereby revoked.
S.S.I. 2004/14.
TOM McCABE
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
19th January 2005

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2005–2006
Articles 2 and 3
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non-domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	179,506,000	77,497,000
Aberdeenshire	212,377,000	86,024,000
Angus	111,328,000	40,332,000
Argyll & Bute	119,657,000	34,247,000
Clackmannanshire	48,130,000	17,885,000
Dumfries & Galloway	165,531,000	55,220,000
Dundee City	171,806,000	53,674,000
East Ayrshire	125,382,000	44,837,000
East Dunbartonshire	97,589,000	40,125,000
East Lothian	83,248,000	34,169,000
East Renfrewshire	87,151,000	33,640,000
City of Edinburgh	384,176,000	168,187,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	79,514,000	9,790,000
Falkirk	145,098,000	54,736,000
Fife	345,064,000	132,053,000
Glasgow City	784,733,000	216,471,000
Highland	263,696,000	78,428,000
Inverclyde	97,613,000	31,153,000
Midlothian	83,685,000	29,900,000
Moray	89,370,000	32,807,000
North Ayrshire	146,488,000	51,026,000
North Lanarkshire	331,147,000	120,717,000
Orkney Islands	44,793,000	7,243,000
Perth & Kinross	128,989,000	51,011,000
Renfrewshire	178,754,000	64,136,000
Scottish Borders	118,126,000	40,617,000
Shetland Islands	65,992,000	8,204,000
South Ayrshire	107,749,000	41,855,000
South Lanarkshire	303,624,000	113,662,000
Stirling	91,884,000	32,398,000
West Dunbartonshire	109,435,000	34,630,000
West Lothian	155,134,000	60,400,000

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2004–2005
Article 4
Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount
	£
Aberdeen City	172,187,832
Aberdeenshire	202,416,759
Angus	103,683,742
Argyll & Bute	116,696,095
Clackmannanshire	46,879,746
Dumfries & Galloway	161,999,025
Dundee City	170,739,726
East Ayrshire	122,633,210
East Dunbartonshire	92,579,671
East Lothian	81,190,807
East Renfrewshire	79,028,947
City of Edinburgh	372,094,519
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	77,400,409
Falkirk	137,037,017
Fife	328,105,392
Glasgow City	774,465,819
Highland	253,153,364
Inverclyde	98,195,814
Midlothian	79,867,850
Moray	85,180,076
North Ayrshire	142,366,258
North Lanarkshire	316,906,986
Orkney Islands	43,319,660
Perth & Kinross	122,116,855
Renfrewshire	171,999,161
Scottish Borders	112,391,191
Shetland Islands	64,220,212
South Ayrshire	101,871,713
South Lanarkshire	287,935,404
Stirling	91,337,292
West Dunbartonshire	108,487,401
West Lothian	147,568,182

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order–
(a) determines the amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority in Scotland in respect of the financial year 2005–2006 (article 2 and Schedule 1);
(b) determines the amount of non-domestic rate income to be distributed to each local authority in respect of that year (article 3 and Schedule 1);
(c) redetermines the amount of the revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2004–2005 (article 4 and Schedule 2); and
(d) makes a consequential revocation in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2004 (article 6).