Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

Apportionment of rate reductions in the City of London by reference to the domestic rate relief grant

3 (1) Section 48 of the [1967 c. 9.] General Rate Act 1967 (which provides for the reduction of rates on dwellings by reference to the domestic rate relief grant) and paragraph 1 above shall, in their application to the City of London, have effect subject to the provisions of this paragraph.

(2) Reductions of rates under the said provisions shall be apportioned between the poor rate and the general rate in the relevant proportions (taken to the nearest whole penny).

(3) Payments in respect of the domestic rate relief grant shall be treated as being, in the relevant proportions, the proceeds of the poor rate and the general rate.

(4) In this paragraph " the relevant proportions" means the proportions which, for the year, the number of pence in the pound of the poor rate and the general rate bear respectively to the aggregate of the number of pence in the pound of both of the said rates.