57(1)Section 77 (information) shall be omitted.
(2)This paragraph shall not affect the operation of section 77 as regards a case where a notice has been served under it before the coming into force of this paragraph.
58(1)Section 82 (calculation of revenue support grant payable) shall be amended as follows.
(2)At the end of subsection (3) there shall be inserted “; and he may decide different dates for different kinds of information.”
(3)In subsection (4) after “date” there shall be inserted “(or the dates and kinds of information)”.
59(1)Section 84 (special provision for transitional years) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (3) the following paragraphs shall be substituted for paragraphs (b) and (c)—
“(b)may contain provision for one transitional year, or for more than one, as the Secretary of State thinks fit;
(c)may make different provision for different authorities;
(d)if it contains provision for more than one transitional year, may make different provision for the different years.”
(3)In subsection (5) after “transitional year” there shall be inserted “for which the report contains provision”.
60In section 88 (transport grants: supplementary), in subsections (4) and (6) for the words from “prescribed expenditure” onwards there shall, in each case, be substituted “expenditure for capital purposes within the meaning of Part IV of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989”.
61The following section shall be inserted after section 88—
(1)If regulations under section 13A above have effect as regards a chargeable financial year the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, pay a grant to a charging authority as regards that financial year.
(2)The amount of the grant shall be such as the Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury determine.
(3)A grant under this section shall be paid at such time, or in instalments of such amounts and at such times, as the Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury determine.
(4)In making any payment of grant under this section the Secretary of State may impose such conditions as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine; and the conditions may relate to the repayment in specified circumstances of all or part of the amount paid, or otherwise.
(5)In deciding whether to pay a grant under this section, and in determining the amount of any such grant, the Secretary of State shall have regard to his estimate of the aggregate of—
(a)any amount which, in consequence of the regulations, the authority might reasonably be expected to lose, or to have lost, by way of payments in respect of community charges as they have effect for the financial year concerned, and
(b)any administrative expenses the authority might reasonably be expected to incur, or to have incurred, in giving effect to the regulations in their application to the financial year concerned.”