Local Government (Capital Finance and Accounting) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Sums to be treated as capital receipts

Repayment of loan, etc. to a council

14.—(1) For the purposes of Part 1 (financial administration), the sums referred to in paragraph (2), paid on or after 1st April 2012, shall be treated as capital receipts.

(2) The sums referred to for the purposes of paragraph (1) are sums paid to a council as repayment of any loan, grant or other financial assistance given by the council for such a purpose that, if the giving of that financial assistance had been expenditure incurred at the time of the repayment, it would have constituted capital expenditure.

Loan capital

15.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of Part 1, a sum received by a council on or after 1st April 2012 in respect of the redemption on maturity of a bond held by it which, apart from this regulation, would not be a capital receipt, shall be treated as a capital receipt.

(2) Paragraph (1) applies only if at the time of redemption expenditure on the acquisition of the bond would be treated as capital expenditure.