PART 1

The OGA

Funding

The licensing levy: regulations
14
1
Regulations may provide for the licensing levy payable in respect of a charging period to increase or decrease over that period.
2
Regulations may provide for an amount of licensing levy payable by a licence holder to be calculated by reference to the size of an area to which a licence held by that person relates.
3
Regulations may provide for different categories of licence holders to pay—
a
different amounts of licensing levy, or
b
amounts of licensing levy calculated, set or determined in different ways.
4
Regulations may provide for a category of licence holder to be exempt from payment of the licensing levy.
5
Regulations may provide for interest (at a rate specified in, or determined under, the regulations) to be charged in respect of unpaid amounts of licensing levy.
6
Regulations may provide for unpaid amounts of licensing levy (together with any interest charged) to be recoverable as a civil debt.
7
Regulations may confer a function (including a function involving the exercise of a discretion) on—
a
the Secretary of State,
b
the OGA, or
c
any other person, apart from the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers.
8
Regulations (including regulations of the kinds mentioned in subsections (3) and (4)) may provide for a category of licence holder to consist of persons who hold a kind of licence that is specified in the regulations.
9
The regulations may (in particular) specify any of the following kinds of licence—
a
licences granted under a particular enactment;
b
licences of a particular description granted under a particular enactment;
c
licences, or licences of a particular description (including a description falling within paragraph (a) or (b)), granted—
i
before a particular time,
ii
after a particular time, or
iii
during a particular period.
10
In this section—
- “licence” means a licence falling within section 13(1);
- “licence holder” means a person who holds a licence (whether the person was granted it or has, after its grant, acquired it by assignment or other means);
- “regulations” means regulations under section 13.
S. 14 in force at 12.7.2016 by S.I. 2016/602, reg. 3(f) (as substituted by S.I. 2016/710, reg. 2)