Statutory Instruments
2009 No. 537
Constitutional Law
Devolution, Scotland
The Scotland Act 1998 (Designation of Receipts) Order 2009
Made
9th March 2009
Laid before the House of Commons
9th March 2009
Coming into force
31st March 2009
The Treasury, after consultation with the Scottish Ministers, make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 64(5) and 115 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Scotland Act 1998( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Scotland Act 1998 (Designation of Receipts) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 31st March 2009.
Designated receipts
2. —(1) Receipts of any description specified in paragraph (2) below, so far as they are payable into the Scottish Consolidated Fund (or would be but for provision made by or under an Act of the Scottish Parliament), shall be designated receipts for the purposes of subsections (5) to (7) of section 64 of the Scotland Act 1998.
(2) The specified descriptions of receipts are —
(a) forfeitures and fixed penalties;
(b) fines, other than amounts equal to expenses which were—
(i) incurred in connection with justice of the peace business; and
(ii) defrayed from fines imposed in proceedings in justice of the peace courts( 2 ).
(c) dividends on public dividend capital;
(d) interest, other than interest on—
(i) any loan that was provided by Scottish Homes undersection 2(2) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988( 3 );
(ii) £1,555,554 of 6% Convertible Unsecured Loan Stock dated 23rd February 2001, held in Partnerships (UK) Limited; and
(iii) any voted loans issued by the Scottish Executive since 1st June 1999.
Revocation
3.The Scotland Act 1998 (Designation of Receipts) Order 2004( 4 ) is revoked.
Frank Roy
Tony Cunningham
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
9th March 2009
Justice of the peace courts may be established by Scottish Ministers, by order, in accordance with section 59(2) of the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) . See, for example, the Justice of the Peace Court (Sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin) Order 2008 ( S.S.I. 2008/328 ).
1988 c.43 ; section 2(2) was amended by the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10) , section 112 and Schedule 10, paragraph 14. The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (Transfer of Scottish Homes Property and Liabilities) Order 2003 ( S.S.I. 2003/532 ) transferred all the rights and interests of Scottish Homes in relation to such loans to the Scottish Ministers.