This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been printed in substitution of the S.S.I. of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument.

2008 No. 20

POLICE

The Police Grant (Variation) (Scotland) Order 2008

Made

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

Coming into force

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 32(3) of the Police (Scotland) Act 19671 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Police Grant (Variation) (Scotland) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 7th March 2008, but article 2 shall have effect from 1st April 2007.

Variation of the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 20072

The Police Grant (Scotland) Order 20072 is amended as follows–

a

in article 2 (aggregate amount of grants for financial year 2007–2008), for “£551,047,000” substitute “£551,380,710”; and

b

in article 3 (amount of grant to an authority for financial year 2007–2008), for the table contained therein, substitute the following table–

(1)

(2)

Authority

Amount of Grant

Central Scotland Joint Police Board

£26,193,354

The Dumfries and Galloway Council

£15,334,384

The Fife Council

£33,122,155

Grampian Joint Police Board

£50,519,536

Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board

£97,748,156

Northern Joint Police Board

£28,789,309

Strathclyde Joint Police Board

£258,128,161

Tayside Joint Police Board

£41,545,655

KENNY MACASKILLA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies the Police Grant (Scotland) Order 2007 for the financial year 2007/08 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 2007 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.