The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 3021

RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND

The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Made

5th December 2002

Laid before Parliament

10th December 2002

Coming into force

31st December 2002

The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 31st December 2002.

Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

2.  Schedules 1 and 2 to the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992(2) are amended as follows in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2003.

Rules for the calculation of non-domestic rating contributions

3.  In Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 1(4), for “2002” there is substituted “2003”;

(b) in paragraph 4(4), for “2002” there is substituted “2003”;

(c) for Part II there is substituted—

“PART II COST FACTORS

Name or description of authority	Cost factor
The councils of the districts of Bracknell Forest, Crawley, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Slough, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Windsor and Maidenhead and Woking	1.1393
The councils of the districts of Broxbourne, Chiltern, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, St Albans, South Buckinghamshire, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield	1.1204
The councils of the districts of Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham	1.1077
The councils of the districts of Basildon, Brentwood, Epping Forest, Harlow, Dartford, Sevenoaks and Thurrock	1.0830
The councils of the districts of Aylesbury Vale, Milton Keynes and Wycombe	1.0775
The council of a district which falls within the county of Oxfordshire	1.0740
The councils of the districts of Bedford, Luton, Mid Bedfordshire, North Hertfordshire, South Bedfordshire and Stevenage	1.0493
The councils of the districts of Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough and South Cambridgeshire	1.0458
The councils of the districts of Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Portsmouth, Rushmoor, Southampton, Test Valley and Winchester	1.0400
The councils of the districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, Mid Sussex and Worthing	1.0397
The council of a district which falls within the county of Warwickshire	1.0330
The councils of the districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, Swindon and West Wiltshire	1.0308
The councils of the districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire	1.0303
The council of a district which falls within the county of Northamptonshire	1.0300
The councils of the districts of Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Medway, Shepway, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Maling and Tunbridge Wells	1.0271
The council of a district which falls within the county of Gloucestershire	1.0266
The council of a district which falls within the West Midlands metropolitan county	1.0260
The councils of the districts of Chester, Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Halton, Macclesfield, Vale Royal and Warrington	1.0224
The council of a district which falls within the Greater Manchester metropolitan county	1.0199
The councils of the districts of Braintree, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Tendring and Uttlesford	1.0194
The councils of the districts of Brighton and Hove, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother and Wealden	1.0159
The council of a district which falls within the Merseyside metropolitan county	1.0125
The council of a district which falls within the West Yorkshire metropolitan county	1.0108
The council of a district other than a district named, or falling within a description given, above	1.0000
The council of an inner London borough	1.2461
The councils of the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon thames and Sutton	1.1361
The councils of the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Haringey, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest	1.0887
The Common Council of the City of London	1.4609
The Council of the Isles of Scilly	1.0000
The Isle of Wight Council	1.0000”

Assumptions relating to provisional amounts

4.  In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2003, in Schedule 2—

(a) for paragraph 2(12) there is substituted the following—

“(12) It shall be assumed that the amount calculated for the authority in accordance with the assumptions prescribed in sub-paragraphs (1) to (11) above is the total of the amount so calculated multiplied by 0.961.”;

(b) for the table in paragraph 8(1) there is substituted the following—

“Name or description of authority	Percentage
The council of a metropolitan district	1.0
The council of a non-metropolitan district which has the functions of a county council	0.7
The council of a non-metropolitan district which does not have the functions of a county council	0.5
The council of an inner London borough, and the Common Council of the City of London	1.0
The council of an outer London borough	1.3
The Council of the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight Council	0.7”

Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State

Nick Raynsford

Minister of State,

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

5th December 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, billing authorities are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to the Secretary of State. Payments in respect of a provisional amount of the contributions are made during the financial year, final calculations and any adjustments of payments being made after the year ends.

These Regulations amend the rules for calculation of contributions contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992, with effect from 1st April 2003 by altering certain figures used in the calculations.

(1)

1988 c. 41. Sections 140 and 143 are amended by paragraphs 69 and 72 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) (“the 1989 Act”), and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 are amended by paragraph 42 of Schedule 5 to the 1989 Act and by paragraph 6 of Schedule 10 and paragraph 86 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14). These powers are devolved, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(2)

S.I. 1992/3082. Relevant amendments are made by S.I. 1993/1496 and 3082, 1994/1431 and 3139, 1995/3181, 1996/3245, 1997/3031, 1998/3038, 1999/3275, 2000/3208 and 2001/3944.