The Devon and Cornwall Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 736

POLICE

The Devon and Cornwall Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1990

Made

26th March 1990

Whereas the combined police authority established by the Devon and Cornwall Police Amalgamation Scheme 1974 (set out in the Appendix to the Devon and Cornwall Police (Amalgamation) Order 1974(1)) has, under sections 21 and 22 of the Police Act 1964(2), submitted to me the Scheme set out in the Appendix to this Order for the amendment of the said Scheme of 1974:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the power conferred on me by the said sections, I, by this Order, approve the Scheme set out in the Appendix to this Order.

This Order may be cited as the Devon and Cornwall Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1990.

David Waddington

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

26th March 1990

APPENDIX THE DEVON AND CORNWALL POLICE AMALGAMATION (AMENDMENT) SCHEME 1990

1.  This Scheme may be cited as the Devon and Cornwall Police Amalgamation (Amendment) Scheme 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

2.  For paragraph 3(2) and (3) of Schedule 2 to the Devon and Cornwall Police Amalgamation Scheme 1974 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(2) In this Schedule the expression “the appropriate proportion” means, in respect of each financial year and in the case of each constituent council, the proportion which the population of the constituent area in question bears to the population of the combined police area.

(3) For the purposes of the foregoing sub-paragraph the population of an area shall be the “relevant population” calculated in accordance with section 69(7) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988(3) and regulations made thereunder.”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order contains the Secretary of State’s approval to a Scheme, submitted to him under the Police Act 1964, amending the Devon and Cornwall Police Amalgamation Scheme 1974 with effect from 1st April 1990.

It provides that the respective proportions of the expenses of the combined police authority which the constituent councils are to contribute are to be assessed by reference to populations rather than rateable values.

(1)

S.I. 1974/165.

(2)

1964 c. 48; sections 21 and 22 were amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Schedule 30.

(3)

1988 c. 41.