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The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed on 10th February 2000 and received Royal Assent on 20th March 2000

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision, for financial year 2000/01, for payments out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund and the application of sums otherwise payable into the Fund, for the maximum amount of relevant expenditure for the purposes of section 94(5) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65) and the maximum amounts of borrowing by certain statutory bodies; to make provision, for financial year 2001/02, for payments out of the Fund on a temporary basis; and for connected purposes.

1The Scottish Administration

(1) The amounts specified in column 2 of schedule 1 are the maximum amounts which may, in financial year 2000/01, be paid out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund (“the Fund") under section 65(1)(c) and (2)(a) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) (“the 1998 Act”) for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 1.

(2) Receipts of the types specified in column 3 of schedule 1 may, in financial year 2000/01, be applied for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 1 up to the amounts specified in column 4 instead of being paid into the Fund.

(3) Receipts of office-holders in the Scottish Administration which are of the types specified in column 1 of each Part of schedule 2 may, in financial year 2000/01, be applied for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 up to the overall amount specified at the end of that Part instead of being paid into the Fund.

(4) Such receipts may be so applied only through the part of the Scottish Administration through which they are received.

(5) The Parts of that schedule set out the types of receipt, purposes and overall amounts by reference to the parts of the Scottish Administration through which the receipts are received and may be applied.