The Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003

Capital receipt treated as reduced

14.—(1) Subject to regulation 12(5) and paragraph (2), for the purposes of calculating the specified amount, the capital receipt in relation to the disposal of the interest in housing land shall be treated as reduced by—

(a) so much of the capital receipt as is applied by the local authority in meeting the administrative costs of and incidental to the disposal;

(b) the costs of expenditure incurred by the local authority in improving the housing land within the period of three years ending on the date of the disposal; and

(c) an amount, by which the authority determines that it shall be reduced, which may be an amount up to the value of its available capital allowance at the time the specified amount is calculated.

(2) Paragraph (1)(c) shall not apply to capital receipts which a local authority derives from the disposal of a dwelling where the disposal is made—

(a) under Part V of the Housing Act 1985 (right to buy)(1); or

(b) with a relevant consent, to a person who, when he acquires that dwelling, occupies or intends to occupy the dwelling as his only or principal home.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), “relevant consent” means a consent to a disposal of land given by the Secretary of State to local authorities generally under section 32 or 43 of the Housing Act 1985 (disposal of land held for housing purposes)(2).

(1)

1985 c. 68.

(2)

Sections 32 and 43 were amended by paragraphs 38 and 39 of Schedule 17 to the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), section 227 of, and Part IX of Schedule 19 to, the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) and S.I. 1997/74. Section 43 was also amended by section 132 of the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), section 194(2) of, and Schedule 12 to, the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) and section 78 of, and paragraph 24(1) of Schedule 10 to, the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25).