The Avon and Somerset Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1991

Made: 7th February 1991

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 Avon and Somerset Police (Amalgamation) (Amendment) Order 1991.

APPENDIX — THE AVON AND SOMERSET POLICE AMALGAMATION (AMENDMENT) SCHEME 1991

1

This scheme may be cited as the Avon and Somerset Police Amalgamation (Amendment) Scheme 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

2

For paragraph 3(2) and (3) of Schedule 2 to the Avon and Somerset Police Amalgamation Scheme 1973 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[^f00003] and regulations made thereunder.

Signed

Home Office

Kenneth Baker — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 7th February 1991

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, further amending the provisions of the Avon and Somerset Police Amalgamation Scheme 1973 with effect from 1st April 1991. The amendment relates to the apportionment of the expenses of the combined police authority between the constituent councils.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1973/1046, amended by S.I. 1974/800.

[^f00002]: 1964 c. 48; sections 21 and 22 were amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Schedule 30.

[^f00003]: 1988 c. 41.