PART 1The OGA

Funding

14The licensing levy: regulations

1

Regulations may provide for the licensing levy payable in respect of a charging period to increase or decrease over that period.

2

Regulations may provide for an amount of licensing levy payable by a licence holder to be calculated by reference to the size of an area to which a licence held by that person relates.

3

Regulations may provide for different categories of licence holders to pay—

a

different amounts of licensing levy, or

b

amounts of licensing levy calculated, set or determined in different ways.

4

Regulations may provide for a category of licence holder to be exempt from payment of the licensing levy.

5

Regulations may provide for interest (at a rate specified in, or determined under, the regulations) to be charged in respect of unpaid amounts of licensing levy.

6

Regulations may provide for unpaid amounts of licensing levy (together with any interest charged) to be recoverable as a civil debt.

7

Regulations may confer a function (including a function involving the exercise of a discretion) on—

a

the Secretary of State,

b

the OGA, or

c

any other person, apart from the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers.

8

Regulations (including regulations of the kinds mentioned in subsections (3) and (4)) may provide for a category of licence holder to consist of persons who hold a kind of licence that is specified in the regulations.

9

The regulations may (in particular) specify any of the following kinds of licence—

a

licences granted under a particular enactment;

b

licences of a particular description granted under a particular enactment;

c

licences, or licences of a particular description (including a description falling within paragraph (a) or (b)), granted—

i

before a particular time,

ii

after a particular time, or

iii

during a particular period.

10

In this section—

  • “licence” means a licence falling within section 13(1);

  • “licence holder” means a person who holds a licence (whether the person was granted it or has, after its grant, acquired it by assignment or other means);

  • “regulations” means regulations under section 13.