{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-grant-scotland-order-1997/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-grant-scotland-order-1997/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/721",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Grant (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-grant-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Timing and manner of payment of police grant",
  "text": "(1) The police grant payable to an authority in terms of article 2 above shall be paid at the times and in the manner and subject to the requirements specified in this article.\n(2) The Secretary of State may make to an authority from time to time during the financial year commencing on 1st April 1997 payments on account of police grant payable to that authority in respect of that year of a sum not exceeding a sum equal to 97.5 per centum of an estimate of police grant payable to the authority in terms of article 2(1) above which the Secretary of State may make for the purposes of that year.\n(3) The balance of any police grant payable to an authority in terms of article 2(1), after payment of sums on account in terms of paragraph (2) above, shall be determined by the Secretary of State after 31st March 1998 after examination of such audited financial statements and such books, records, documents and accounts relating thereto as he may require an authority to submit to him.\n(4) Where following such examination as is mentioned in paragraph (3) above–\n(a) the Secretary of State determines that a balance of the sums payable in terms of article 2(1) above is due to be paid to an authority, he shall make payment of that balance to the authority; or\n(b) the Secretary of State determines that sums paid to an authority in terms of paragraph (2) above exceed the amount of police grant payable in terms of article 2(1) above, he shall recover that excess from the authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/721/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:54.048526+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}