The Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (England) Regulations 1993

Supply of information by the Secretary of State

6.—(1) In order that a billing authority may fulfil its obligations under regulation 3, the Secretary of State shall as soon as practicable after the House of Commons has approved the finance report for the financial year concerned notify the billing authority of—

(a) the adjusted resident population of its area; and

(b) the adjusted resident population of the area of each authority which, as regards the billing authority, is an appropriate major precepting authority.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—

• “the finance report”, in relation to a financial year, means the local government finance report for that year made by the Secretary of State under section 78A of the 1988 Act (1) and approved by resolution of the House of Commons; and

• “adjusted resident population”, in relation to an area and an authority, means the number determined by the Secretary of State for the area of that authority by reference to—

  (a)

  the estimate of the total resident population of the area supplied to him by the Registrar General for the purposes of the calculation of the amount to be paid to the authority by way of revenue support grant for the year in question (2); and

  (b)

  such adjustment to that estimate as is in the opinion of the Secretary of State appropriate in consequence of any order under Part IV (changes in local government areas) of the Local Government Act 1972 (3) which provides for the transfer, on the first day of that year, of an area from the area of one authority to that of another authority.

(1)

Section 78A is inserted by paragraph 10 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

(2)

See section 82(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, as substituted by paragraph 13 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

(3)

1972 c. 70.