Section 10.
1(1)In this Schedule—
" gross rateable value ", in relation to the Metropolitan Police District, means the aggregate of the rateable values of the hereditaments in that District;
" the principal Act " means the [1980 c. 65.] Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 ;
" rateable values ", in relation to hereditaments in that District, means, subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below, rateable values ascribed to them in the valuation lists on a date to be specified in each year in the Rate Support Grant Report;
" the Receiver " means the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District;
" Receiver's grant-related poundage " means a poundage determined by the Secretary of State and related—
to a given ratio between the Receiver's total expenditure and tie Receiver's grant-related expenditure ; or
to a given difference between his total expenditure divided by the population of the Metropolitan Police District and his grant-related expenditure so divided ;
" Receiver's total expenditure " means that part of the Receiver's expenditure for a year which falls to be defrayed out of the Metropolitan Police Fund and which is not met by any such grant as is mentioned in section 54(7)(a) or (b) of the principal Act but reduced by the amount of any payments of such descriptions as the Secretary of State may specify which fall to be paid for that year into the Metropolitan Police Fund;
Receiver's grant-related expenditure " means a sum determined by the Secretary of State as being the aggregate for the year of the Receiver's notional expenditure having regard to his functions.
(2)The reference to hereditaments in the definition of " rateable values " in sub-paragraph (1) above includes a reference to a notional hereditament which a body is treated as occupying by virtue of any enactment.
(3)A Rate Support Grant Report may provide that for the year to which it relates the rateable values of hereditaments in the Metropolitan Police District falling within any class of hereditaments shall be ascertained for the purposes of this Schedule otherwise than by reference to the values ascribed to them in the valuation lists.
2In section 53(1) and (8) of the principal Act, so far as relating to block grant, references to local authorities or a local authority shall include references to the Receiver.
3In subsection (1) of section 54 of the principal Act the reference to local authorities shall include a reference to the Receiver, " relevant expenditure " as denned in subsection (5) of that section shall include the Receiver's total expenditure and the reference in subsection (6)(a) of that section to sums falling to be paid to another local authority shall include a reference to sums falling to be paid to the Receiver.
4(1)The amount of block grant payable to the Receiver is to be calculated by deducting from the Receiver's total expenditure for the year the product arrived at by multiplying the Receiver's grant-related poundage by the gross rateable value of the Metropolitan Police District.
(2)Sub-paragraph (1) above has effect subject to subsection (7) of section 56 of the principal Act in which the reference to a local authority shall include a reference to the Receiver.
5(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)In paragraphs (a) and (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 either of those paragraphs or in paragraph (c) or (d) of that subsection ; 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 any fresh determination of his grant-related poundage in a supplementary report made under section 61 of the principal Act.
(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.
6In subsection (6)(a) of section 60 of the principal Act the reference to Part VI of that Act shall include a reference to this Schedule and in subsection (9) of that section the reference to a local authority shall include a reference to the Receiver.
7In the application of section 61 of the principal Act to the Receiver's grant-related poundage and the Receiver's grant-related expenditure subsection (5) shall be omitted.
8(1)In subsections (1) and (2) of section 62 of the principal Act references to a local authority or local authorities shall include references to the Receiver.
(2)The Secretary of State may, for the purpose of the adjustment required by that section, make a fresh calculation of the entitlement of the Receiver to block grant, substituting the total of the Receiver's expenditure actually defrayed out of the Metropolitan Police Fund for the figure calculated as his total expenditure under paragraph 4(1) above.
9In section 65(1) of the principal Act for the words " sections 53 to 64 above and to Schedule 11 to this Act" there shall be substituted the words " sections 53 to 63 above ".
10In section 66 of the principal Act, so far as relating to block grant, references to a local authority shall include references to the Receiver.