The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3275

RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

Made

9th December 1999

Laid before Parliament

10th December 1999

Coming into force

31st December 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 31st December 1999.

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

2.  Schedules 1 and 2 to the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992(2) are amended as follows.

Rules for calculations of contributions

3.—(1) In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2000, in Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 1(4), for “1999” there is substituted “2000”;

(b) in paragraph 4(4), for “1999 is £82,506,000” there is substituted “2000 is £83,476,000”;

(c) for Part II there is substituted—

“PART II COST FACTORS

Name or description of authority	Cost factor
The councils of the districts of Broxbourne, Dartford, Elmbridge, Epping Forest, Epsom and Ewell, Hertsmere, Reigate and Banstead, Slough, South Bucks, Spelthorne, Three Rivers, Watford	1.1370
The councils of the districts of Basildon, Bracknell Forest, Brentwood, Chiltern, Crawley, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Guildford, Harlow, Mole Valley, Runnymede, St Albans, Sevenoaks, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Thurrock, Waverley, Welwyn Hatfield, Windsor and Maidenhead, Woking	1.1032
The council of a district, other than a district named above, which falls within the county of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Oxfordshire or West Sussex	1.0422
The council of a district other than a district named, or falling within a description given, above	1.0
The council of an inner London borough	1.2094
The council of an outer London borough	1.1010
The Common Council of the City of London	1.4859
The Council of the Isles of Scilly	1.0
The Isle of Wight Council	1.0422”.

Assumptions relating to provisional amounts

4.  In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2000, in Schedule 2—

(a) in paragraph 2(12), for “0.92” there is substituted “1.0”;

(b) for the table in paragraph 8(1) there is substituted the following—

“Name or description of authority	Percentage
The council of a metropolitan district	1.1
The council of a non-metropolitan district which has the functions of a county council	1.0
The council of a non-metropolitan district which does not have the functions of a county council	0.7
The council of an inner London borough, and the Common Council of the City of London	1.3
The council of an outer London borough	2.2
The Council of the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight Council	1.0”.

Areas ceasing to be enterprise zones

5.  In relation to the financial year beginning in 2000, for Part II of Schedule 2 there is substituted—

“PART II PRESCRIBED AMOUNTS IN RESPECT OF ENTERPORISE ZONES

Name of authority	Name of enterprise zones	Prescribed amount
Sunderland City Council	Sunderland (No. 1), (No. 2) and (No. 3)	£12,300,000”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

9th December 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the Secretary of State. Payments in respect of a provisional amount of the contributions are made during the financial year, final calculations and any adjustments of payments being made after the year ends.

These Regulations amend the rules for calculation of contributions contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992, with effect from 1st April 2000.

Regulations 3 and 4 alter certain figures used in the calculation of contributions and provisional amounts. Regulation 5 makes special provision for the calculation in relation to Sunderland City Council, in respect of the cessation of enterprise zones.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Sections 140 and 143 are amended by paragraphs 69 and 72 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) (“the 1989 Act”), and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 are amended by paragraph 42 of Schedule 5 to the 1989 Act and by paragraph 6 of Schedule 10 and paragraph 86 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14). These powers are devolved, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672); see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1.

(2)

S.I. 1992/3082. Relevant amendments are made by S.I.1993/1496 and 3082, 1994/1431 and 3139, 1995/3181, 1996/3245, 1997/3031 and 1998/3038.