The Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2006

Made27th February 2006

Laid before the Scottish Parliament2nd March 2006

Coming into force1st April 2006

The Scottish Ministers in exercise of the powers conferred by section 32(3) and (5) of the Police (Scotland) Act 19671 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 1st April 2006.

(2)

In this Order–

“authority” means a police authority (not being a constituent authority) or a joint police board;

“financial year 2006–2007” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1st April 2006; and

“police grant” means the grant made under section 32(1) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967.

Aggregate amount of grants for financial year 2006–20072.

The aggregate amount of police grant to be made for the financial year 2006–2007 shall be £540,679,000.

Amount of grant to an authority for financial year 2006–20073.

The amount of police grant to be made for the financial year 2006–2007 to each authority specified in column 1 of the Table below shall be the amount determined in relation to that authority which is set out in column 2 of that Table opposite to the name of that authority.

(1)	(2)
Authority	Amount of Grant
Central Scotland Joint Police Board	£24,972,000
The Dumfries and Galloway Council	£14,964,000
The Fife Council	£30,631,000
Grampian Joint Police Board	£48,580,000
Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board	£95,586,000
Northern Joint Police Board	£27,138,000
Strathclyde Joint Police Board	£257,639,000
Tayside Joint Police Board	£41,169,000

Payment of grant4.

The police grant payable to an authority by virtue of this Order for the financial year 2006–2007 shall be paid to that authority in monthly instalments on the fifteenth day of each month during that year.

CATHY JAMIESON

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

27th February 2006

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order determines–

(a)

the aggregate amount of grants to be made under section 32(1) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 out of money from the Scottish Consolidated Fund for police purposes to all police authorities and joint police boards for the financial year 2006–2007 (article 2); and

(b)

the amount of such grants to be made to each police authority or joint police board (article 3).

The Order also sets out how and when the grant is payable (article 4).