1(1)Section 54 of the 1980 Act shall be amended as mentioned in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below.
(2)In subsection (1) for “in respect of their” there shall be substituted “and the Receiver in respect of”, subsections (5) and (6) shall be omitted, and in subsection (7) the words “for the Metropolitan Police District” and the words from “and to the extent that” to the end shall be omitted.
(3)At the end there shall be inserted—
“(9)In this section “relevant expenditure” in relation to any year means—
(a)the aggregate of all local authorities' relevant expenditure in relation to the year, plus
(b)the Receiver’s total expenditure for the year (within the meaning of Schedule 2 to the Local Government Finance Act 1982).
(10)But to the extent that, in any year, any expenditure of the Receiver or of a combined police authority is met by any grants mentioned in subsection (7)(a) or (b) above, that expenditure shall be treated for the purposes of this section as relevant expenditure in relation to that year.
(11)In this section “the Receiver” means the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.”