1989 No. 296

TRANSPORT

The London Regional Transport (Levy) Order 1989

Made

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13(4) of the London Regional Transport Act 19841 and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament pursuant to section 13(9) of that Act.

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the London Regional Transport (Levy) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the day after it is made.

Interpretation2

In this Order: “the 1984 Act” means the London Regional Transport Act 1984;

  • “the year 1989/90” means the period of twelve months beginning with 1st April 1989;

  • “the estimated grant” means the Secretary of State’s estimated expenditure in the year 1989/90 on grants to London Regional Transport under section 12 of the 1984 Act;

  • “the ratepayer proportion” means the proportion of the estimated grants which it appears to the Secretary of State appropriate to recover from the ratepayers of Greater London;

  • “the estimated penny rate product of a rating area” means, in relation to the rating areas listed in the left hand column of the Schedule (which are the rating areas comprised in Greater London) an estimate of the amount, calculated as provided in section 12(4) of the General Rate Act 19672, which would be produced by a rate of a penny in the pound levied in the rating area in question and each such estimate (which has been transmitted to the Secretary of State pursuant to section 12(4) of that Act) is shown in the right hand column of the Schedule opposite the rating area to which it relates; and

  • “the estimated penny rate product of Greater London” means the total of the estimated penny rate products of the rating areas comprised in Greater London (shown at the bottom of the right hand column of this Schedule).

Amount in the pound3

The amount in the pound for the purpose of section 13(4) of the 1984 Act in respect of the year 1989/90 shall be 9.06 pence.

Factors taken into account4

The factors taken into account in determining the amount in the pound specified in article 3 are as follows—

1

the estimated grant which is £286.6 million; (2) the ratepayer proportion which is 65.63%; and

3

the estimated penny rate product of Greater London which is £20,759,588.

Method of calculation5

The method of calculation employed in determining the amount in the pound specified in article 3 is as follows—

1

the number of pence in the pound is obtained by the formula

the estimated grant×the ratepayer proportionthe estimated penny rate product of Greater Londonmath

and accordingly the calculation is:

£286,600,000×x0.656320,759,588=9.060661math

2

the unrounded figure is rounded to two places of decimals to give 9.06 pence.

Paul ChannonSecretary of State for Transport

SCHEDULE

Article 2

Rating Area

Estimated penny rate product of the rating area (£)

Barking & Dagenham

266,000

Barnet

622,000

Bexley

324,000

Brent

497,000

Bromley

524,000

Camden

1,157,000

City of London

2,800,000

City of Westminster

3,325,000

Croydon

715,000

Ealing

578,000

Enfield

498,000

Greenwich

310,000

Hackney

415,000

Hammersmith & Fulham

382,520

Haringey

346,000

Harrow

360,000

Havering

387,000

Hillingdon

613,000

Hounslow

510,000

Inner Temple

4,292

Islington

576,024

Kensington & Chelsea

710,000

Kingston upon Thames

297,000

Lambeth

580,600

Lewisham

336,000

Merton

318,000

Middle Temple

2,652

Newham

340,000

Redbridge

368,500

Richmond upon Thames

332,000

Southwark

600,000

Sutton

298,000

Tower Hamlets

600,000

Waltham Forest

317,000

Wandsworth

450,000

Total

20,759,588

(estimated penny rate product of Greater London)

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 13 of the London Regional Transport Act 1984 provides that the Secretary of State may, in respect of any year, make a levy on the rating authorities for all the rating areas in Greater London to recover a contribution from Greater London ratepayers towards his estimated expenditure in that year on grants to London Regional Transport, and for the purpose of raising the levy the Secretary of State may issue a demand for payments to the rating authorities. Such a demand shall require the rating authorities to levy as part, or as an additional item of the rate, a rate of an amount in the pound specified by Order in respect of the year to which the demand relates.

This Order specifies an amount of 9.06 pence in the pound in respect of the year 1989/90 (article 3). As required by section 13(7) of the London Regional Transport Act 1984 this Order sets out the factors taken into account (article 4) and the method of calculation employed (article 5) in determining the amount in the pound.