Explanatory note

alter the overall cash authorisations in respect of the Scottish administration and the Forestry Commissioners referred to in section 3 of the 2004 Act (Article 2(2));

restate certain of the purposes for which resources may be used in accordance with section 1 of and Schedule 1 to the 2004 Act and to insert a new twelfth purpose (Article 2(3)(a)(i) to (iv));

restate the amount of resources other than accruing resources that may be used for the eleven purposes set out in Schedule 1 to the 2004 Act and to state an amount in respect of the new twelfth purpose (Article 2(3)(b)(i) to (xii));

restate the amounts of accruing resources in Schedule 1 to the 2004 Act in respect of the first, third, fifth and seventh type of accruing resources (Article 2(3)(c)(i) to (iv));

add a type of accruing resource and corresponding purpose in Part II of Schedule 2 which may be used by the Scottish Executive Development Department (Article 2(4)(b)) and add a new type of accruing resource as Part 12 of that Schedule which may be used by the Scottish Teachers' and NHS Pension Schemes (Article 2(4)(l));

alter the overall amounts of accruing resources in Parts 1 to 11 of Schedule 2 to the Act and state an amount in respect of new Part 12 which may be used by the bodies referred to therein without individual limit (Article 2(4));

in Schedule 3 to the 2004 Act to add in as directly funded bodies the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland and the Commissioner for Children and Young Persons in Scotland and alter the amount of resources other than accruing resources which the first and third categories of directly funded bodies referred to therein may use for the purposes specified (Article 2(5));

alter in Schedule 4 the amount of accruing resources in respect of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body which may be used without individual limit (Article 2(6));

alter in Schedule 5 the amount of borrowing in respect of Scottish Water (Article 2(7)).