Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 3259

The National Crime Squad Service Authority (Levying) (Amendment) Order 1998

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APPORTIONMENT OF LEVIES

     1. Each police authority shall contribute to the total amount of the levies issued under section 62 of the 1997 Act a sum which is such proportion of that total amount as is equal to the proportion which the sum of:


(a) the amount of the grant made to that authority for the relevant year under section 46 of the 1996 Act; and

(b) the amount of that authority's standard spending assessment for the police service block in the relevant year,



bears to the sum of-



(i) the aggregate amount of grants made for the relevant year under section 46 of the 1996 Act; and

(ii) the aggregate of the standard spending assessments for the police service block in the relevant year.



     2. In this Schedule-



(a) any reference to the amount of grant made under section 46 of the 1996 Act or to the aggregate amount of grants so made shall be construed as a reference to the amount of grant or, as the case may be, aggregate amount of grants made in pursuance of a formula or other rule applied under subsection (4) of that section which applies to all police authorities; and accordingly any special payment made to one or more police authorities in pursuance of any other formula or rule, or of any consideration taken into account in relation to that police authority under subsection (3) of that section, shall for the purposes of this Schedule be disregarded;

(b) any reference to the standard spending assessment for the police service block of a police authority is a reference to the police element of its standard spending assessment as used in calculating the amount of revenue support grant payable to that authority in accordance with the basis of distribution in the local government finance report relating to the relevant year made by the Secretary of State under section 78A of the Local Government Finance Act 1988[3]; and any reference to the aggregate of the standard spending assessments for the police service block is a reference to the total amount of the police element of the standard spending assessments calculated for the receiving authorities (within the meaning of Part V of that Act).".

Paul Boateng
Minister of State

Home Office
22nd December 1998

[2] S.I. 1997/2283.back

[3] 1988 c. 41; section 78A was inserted by paragraph 10 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14).back