Business Rate Supplements Act 2009

30 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, the “appropriate national authority” means—

(a) in relation to a levying authority whose area is in England or in relation to hereditaments in England, the Secretary of State;

(b) in relation to a levying authority whose area is in Wales or in relation to hereditaments in Wales, the Welsh Ministers.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, an expression in the first column of the Table is defined or otherwise explained by the provision of this Act, or of the 1988 Act, the 1999 Act or the 2003 Act, specified in the second column.

Expression	Provision
BID levy	Section 41(2) of the 2003 Act
Billing authority	Section 144(2) of the 1988 Act
BRS	Section 1(1)
Chargeable amount	Section 13
Chargeable day	Section 11(5)
Chargeable period	Section 11(6)
Final prospectus	Section 4
Financial year	Section 145(3) of the 1988 Act
Financial year, imposition of BRS for	Section 11(8)
Functional body	Section 424 of the 1999 Act
Hereditament	Section 64 of the 1988 Act
Initial prospectus	Section 4
Levying authority	Section 2(1)
Local non-domestic rating list	Section 41(1) of the 1988 Act
Lower-tier authority	Section 3(8)
Rateable value	Section 12(9)
Section 45 ratepayer	Section 11(3)
Sums collected by a billing authority in respect of a BRS	Section 22(7)
Sums received by a functional body in respect of a BRS	Section 3(10)
Sums received by a levying authority in respect of a BRS	Section 3(6)
The 1988 Act	Section 1(4)

(3) In subsection (2)—

• “the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), and

• “the 2003 Act” means the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26).