SCHEDULE 2 Block Grant: Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District
Adjustment of distribution of block grant
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(1)
Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, the Secretary of State may provide in a Rate Support Grant Report that the amount of block grant payable to the Receiver for a year shall be calculated by deducting from his total expenditure, instead of the product of his grant-related poundage and the gross rateable value of the Metropolitan Police District, the product of those sums multiplied by a multiplier determined by the Secretary of State.
(2)
F1In paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section 59 of the principal Act references to a local authority shall include references to the Receiver and the power conferred by this paragraph may only be exercised—
(a)
for the purposes specified in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of that subsection or in section 2(2) of the Rate Support Grants Act 1986;; or
(b)
for the purpose of preventing or limiting any change in the amount of block grant payable to the Receiver that would otherwise result from F2any re-calculation of his grant-related poundage on fresh principles specified in a supplementary report made under section 61 of the principal Act.
F3(2A)
A multiplier determined under this paragraph may be subject to a maximum determined by the Secretary of State.
(3)
In Section 8(3) and (7) of this Act references to section 59 of the principal Act and to a local authority shall include references to this paragraph and to the Receiver.
(4)
If the Secretary of State exercises the power conferred by this paragraph the principles on which he exercises it shall, subject to section 8(9) of this Act, be specified in the Rate Support Grant Report.