The Local Government Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England) Order 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 9 of the Local Government Act 1972 makes provision for a new parish council to be established for a parish by an order made by the district council of the area in which the parish is situated.

This Order makes transitional provisions in relation to the sections 32, 41 and 54 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. The sections provide for the calculation of budget requirements by billing authorities, the issue of precepts by local precepting authorities and the power for the Secretary of State to designate authorities. This Order enables there to be taken into account in the calculation of a billing authority’s budget requirement for the purposes of sections 32(2) and 54(1), instead of the amount of a precept issued by the new parish council or the chairman of the parish meeting, or an amount anticipated in respect of that precept, an amount specified in the section 9 order. The Order also extends the period for the new parish council to issue its precept to October in the financial year in which the parish is created.