Part VE+W Grants

[F1Chapter 4E+W Other grants]

Textual Amendments

[F2Other grants]E+W

Textual Amendments

F2Ss. 88A, 88B and cross-heading substituted (6.3.1992) for s. 88A (which was inserted by 1989 c. 42, s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 61) by 1992 c. 14, s. 104, Sch. 10 Pt. II para.18 (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))

F3[88ACouncil tax grants.E+W

(1)If regulations under section 13 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (reduced amounts of tax) have effect as regards a financial year the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, pay a grant to a billing 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 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 the council tax set by it for the financial year concerned.

[F4(6)In the application of this section in relation to Wales, references to the Secretary of State are references to the Welsh Ministers.]]