The Local Government Finance Act 1992 (Scotland) Order 2009

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 50

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government Finance Act 1992 (Scotland) Order 2009

Approved by the Scottish Parliament

Made

4th February 2009

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

4th February 2009

Coming into force

12th February 2009

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of powers conferred by paragraphs 1 and 9(4) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule they have consulted with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be appropriate.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (Scotland) Order 2009 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Revenue support grant for 2009–2010

2.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2009–2010 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 2009–2010 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 2009–2010

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 2009 2010 is £2,165,100,000.

(2) The local authorities among whom the distributable amount of non domestic rate income is distributed in respect of the financial year 2009–2010 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 2009 2010 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 2008–2009

4.—(1) The local authorities to which revenue support grant is payable in respect of the financial year 2008 2009 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 2008–2009 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.—(1) Article 2 of, and column 2 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008(2) (which previously determined the amount of revenue support grant payable to each local authority in respect of the financial year 2008 2009) are revoked.

(2) The Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2009(3) is revoked.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

4th February 2009

Articles 2 and 3

SCHEDULE 1 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NON DOMESTIC RATE INCOME 2009–2010

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant	Amount of non domestic rate income
	£	£
Aberdeen City	241,402,000	88,074,000
Aberdeenshire	300,344,000	100,659,000
Angus	156,107,000	46,242,000
Argyll & Bute	176,458,000	38,448,000
Clackmannanshire	71,046,000	21,002,000
Dumfries & Galloway	232,079,000	62,417,000
Dundee City	228,303,000	59,828,000
East Ayrshire	173,674,000	50,325,000
East Dunbartonshire	137,099,000	44,129,000
East Lothian	124,380,000	39,748,000
East Renfrewshire	133,278,000	37,568,000
City of Edinburgh	550,572,000	197,002,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	96,725,000	11,069,000
Falkirk	206,667,000	63,435,000
Fife	484,717,000	151,728,000
Glasgow City	1,052,332,000	244,927,000
Highland	365,674,000	91,517,000
Inverclyde	133,308,000	34,125,000
Midlothian	117,494,000	33,464,000
Moray	120,887,000	36,562,000
North Ayrshire	208,987,000	57,139,000
North Lanarkshire	474,467,000	136,652,000
Orkney Islands	61,074,000	8,359,000
Perth & Kinross	180,374,000	59,824,000
Renfrewshire	246,565,000	71,382,000
Scottish Borders	166,041,000	46,899,000
Shetland Islands	83,750,000	9,238,000
South Ayrshire	152,553,000	47,008,000
South Lanarkshire	422,996,000	130,263,000
Stirling	130,359,000	37,118,000
West Dunbartonshire	158,156,000	38,338,000
West Lothian	221,928,000	70,611,000

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVENUE SUPPORT GRANT 2008–2009

Column 1	Column 2
Local Authority	Amount of revenue support grant
	£
Aberdeen City	234,657,000
Aberdeenshire	295,132,000
Angus	151,112,000
Argyll & Bute	173,916,000
Clackmannanshire	68,093,000
Dumfries & Galloway	224,317,000
Dundee City	223,974,000
East Ayrshire	171,732,000
East Dunbartonshire	130,746,000
East Lothian	122,775,000
East Renfrewshire	131,222,000
City of Edinburgh	538,569,000
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	94,093,000
Falkirk	199,000,000
Fife	471,999,000
Glasgow City	1,023,152,000
Highland	357,836,000
Inverclyde	130,554,000
Midlothian	116,884,000
Moray	117,937,000
North Ayrshire	205,653,000
North Lanarkshire	462,596,000
Orkney Islands	59,723,000
Perth & Kinross	174,356,000
Renfrewshire	250,733,000
Scottish Borders	158,997,000
Shetland Islands	81,832,000
South Ayrshire	147,657,000
South Lanarkshire	412,103,000
Stirling	127,940,000
West Dunbartonshire	151,074,000
West Lothian	215,520,000

Explanatory Note

(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 2009–2010 (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 2008–2009 (article 4 and Schedule 2);

(d) makes a consequential revocation in the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2008 (article 5); and

(e) revokes the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 2009.

(1)

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.

(2)

S.S.I. 2008/33; Schedule 1 was amended by S.S.I. 2008/136.

(3)

This Order was made by the Scottish Ministers on 22nd January 2009 but not submitted for the approval of Parliament.