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2002 No. 743

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Audit Commission (Borrowing Limit) Order 2002

  Made 18th March 2002 
  Coming into force 19th March 2002 

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 1 to the Audit Commission Act 1998[1], hereby makes the following Order a draft of which has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the House of Commons.

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Audit Commission (Borrowing Limit) Order 2002 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Maximum borrowing limit
     2.  - (1) The Secretary of State hereby specifies £12 million as the sum that the borrowed amount may not exceed.

    (2) In paragraph (1) above, the "borrowed amount" means the aggregate amount outstanding in respect of the principal of any sums borrowed by the Commission under paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 1 to the Audit Commission Act 1998.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions


Alan Whitehead
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

18th March 2002


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order relates to the Audit Commission's borrowing limit. Paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 1 to the Audit Commission Act 1998 provides that the aggregate amount outstanding in respect of the principal of any of the sums borrowed by the Commission may not exceed £4 million. This Order increases that limit to £12 million.

Notes:

 [1] 1998 c.18.back


ISBN 0 11 039530 1


  Prepared 25 March 2002

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