10Funding of Police Authority – ancillary provisions
(1)The Police Authority shall—
(a)prepare and submit to the Secretary of State, at such times and in such form as the Secretary of State may direct, estimates of the receipts and payments of the Authority—
(i)for police purposes; and
(ii)for general administrative purposes of the Authority,
during such period as may be specified in the direction; and
(b)submit to the Secretary of State such other information relating to those estimates as he may require.
(2)A draft of the estimates of receipts and payments for police purposes shall be submitted by the Chief Constable to the Police Authority.
(3)The estimates of receipts and payments for police purposes submitted by the Police Authority under subsection (1) shall be either—
(a)in the form of the draft submitted under subsection (2); or
(b)in that form with such amendments as the Authority may, after consultation with the Chief Constable, determine.
(4)The Police Authority shall comply with such directions as the Secretary of State may give as to the application of moneys received by the Authority otherwise than by way of grant under section 9(1); and to the extent that any statutory provision or any such direction does not require moneys so received to be applied in a particular manner or for a particular purpose, the Authority shall apply those moneys for police purposes.
(5)The Police Authority shall in each financial year put at the disposal of the Chief Constable—
(a)an amount equal to the amount of the grant for police purposes received in that year by the Authority under section 9(1); and
(b)any amount received by the Authority in that year which is required to be applied for police purposes—
(i)by subsection (4) or directions under that subsection; or
(ii)by any other statutory provision.