Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 47

The Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority (Funding) Regulations 2001

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(a) "the 1997 Act" means the Justices of the Peace Act 1997;

(b) "the Authority" means the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority referred to in section 30A(1) of the 1997 Act[2];

(c) "the general funding contribution" has the meaning specified in regulation 3;

(d) "the inner London boroughs' additional funding contribution" has the meaning specified in regulation 4.

    (2) References in these Regulations to a year mean a year beginning on 1st April and ending on the following 31st March.

General funding contribution
     3.  - (1) References in paragraph (2) to kinds of the Authority's expenditure do not include the kind of the Authority's expenditure referred to in regulation 4.

    (2) The general funding contribution for any year is an amount equal to 20% of - 

(a) all the Authority's expenditure of whatever kind for that year; or

(b) if, in relation to any kind of expenditure for that year, the Lord Chancellor determines a lesser amount under section 59B(3)(b) of the 1997 Act - 


(i) such amount as may be for the time being determined by the Lord Chancellor for that kind of expenditure and that year; and

(ii) all the Authority's other kinds of expenditure for that year, if any.

Inner London boroughs' additional funding contribution
     4. The inner London boroughs' additional funding contribution for any year is an amount equal to that part, if any, of the Authority's expenditure for that year that arises as a result of liability transferred to it for repayment of debt incurred by the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District in respect of functions in relation to magistrates' courts.

Apportionment of contributions
     5. The amount that each London local authority shall pay under section 59B(3) of the 1997 Act each year to the Authority shall be - 

(a) in the case of the inner London boroughs, such amount of the general funding contribution for that year as is specified in regulations 6 and 7 and such amount of the inner London boroughs' additional funding contribution for that year as is specified in regulation 8; and

(b) in the case of all other London local authorities, such amount of the general funding contribution for that year as is specified in regulations 6 and 7.

     6. In the year beginning on 1st April 2005 and in the year beginning on 1st April in any year after 2005, the amount of the general funding contribution payable by each London local authority shall be calculated by applying the following formula - 

[2] Section 30A(1) was inserted into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 by section 83(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).back

[3] 1992 c. 14. Section 32 has been amended by S.I. 1994/246; S.I. 1995/234; S.I. 1996/175; S.I. 1997/232; S.I. 1998/213; S.I. 1999/228, and the Police Act 1997 (c. 50), Schedule 9, paragraph 67. There are other amendments which are not relevant to London local authorities. Section 32 has been modified by S.I. 1993/22 and S.I. 1995/161.back