The Billing Authorities (Anticipation of Precepts) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 35

Council Tax, England

The Billing Authorities (Anticipation of Precepts) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014

Made

13th January 2014

Laid before Parliament

20th January 2014

Coming into force

13th February 2014

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 41(2A) and 113(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1), makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Billing Authorities (Anticipation of Precepts) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014 and shall come into force on 13th February 2014.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

Amendment of Regulations

2.—(1) The Billing Authorities (Anticipation of Precepts) Regulations 1992(2) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2) below.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) in the definition of “calculations” for “section 32” substitute “section 31A”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Brandon Lewis

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

13th January 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Sections 73 to 79 of the Localism Act 2011 (c.20) made amendments to the calculations which billing authorities, major precepting authorities and local precepting authorities in England must make to determine their basic amounts of council tax for a financial year. Section 74 of the Localism Act 2011 inserted a new section 31A into the Local Government Finance Act 1992 requiring a billing authority to calculate its council tax requirement each financial year, and section 32 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 became a provision applying to Wales only rather than to England and Wales. These Regulations make a minor amendment consequential on the changes made by the Localism Act 2011 to update the definition of ‘calculations’ in the Billing Authorities (Anticipation of Precepts) Regulations 1992 to refer to the new section 31A inserted by the Localism Act 2011.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on business or the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen and the impact on the public sector is minimal.

(1)

1992 c.14. Subsection (2A) of section 41 was inserted by section 79 of the Localism Act 2011. Section 31A was inserted by section 74 of the Localism Act 2011.

(2)

S.I. 1992/3239.