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Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
12th January 1993
Laid before Parliament
20th January 1993
Coming into force
1st April 1993
The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England and the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 137(4AB) of the Local Government Act 1972(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure) (Relevant Population) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.
2. For the purposes of section 137(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972(2), the relevant population in relation to a financial year ("the relevant year") of the area of a local authority mentioned or described in the first column of the following Table shall be the figure specified in or determined in relation to such an authority under the second column.
| The council of a county, district or London borough, and the Council of the Isles of Scilly | The number equal to the resident population of the council's area in the financial year beginning two years before the relevant year, as estimated by the Registrar General before the beginning of the relevant year. |
| The Common Council | 150,000 |
| A parish or community council | The number of local government electors for the area of the authority on the first day of the relevant year. |
3. The Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure) (Relevant Population) Regulations 1990(3)are hereby revoked.
Michael Howard
Secretary of State for the Environment
11th January 1993
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
12th January 1993
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The annual limit of the amount of expenditure which a local authority may incur for purposes not otherwise authorised is determined under section 137(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 by multiplying the sum appropriate to the authority by virtue of section 137(4AA) by the relevant population of the authority's area.
Regulation 2 of these Regulations has effect in place of the provision in S.I. 1990/602 for the determination of the relevant population of local authority areas in England and Wales.
1972 c. 70 Section 137(4AB) is inserted by section 36(7) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, c. 42.
Section 137(4) is amended by section 36(6) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.
S.I. 1990/602.
