Anticipation of levies
7.—(1) A constituent council making calculations in accordance with section 32 or, as the case may be, section 43 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1) (“the calculations”) for a financial year (“the year”) may anticipate a levy to be issued on it in accordance with these Regulations for the year by a relevant joint authority in any case where—
(a)such a levy has not been issued by the relevant joint authority on the constituent council at the time the calculations are made; and
(b)the relevant joint authority issued a levy for the preceding financial year.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where pursuant to paragraph (1) a constituent council anticipates a levy to be issued by a relevant joint authority for the year, the amount of the levy so anticipated shall be equal to the constituent council’s estimate, at the time the calculations (or last calculations) are made, of the amount of the levy which it considers likely will be issued on it for the year by the relevant joint authority.
(3) Where a levy has previously been anticipated by a constituent council for the purposes of the calculations for the year, the amount of the levy which may be anticipated by the constituent council for the purposes of any substitute calculations for the year shall be equal to the amount previously anticipated.
(4) Notwithstanding that a constituent council making calculations for a financial year anticipated a levy to be issued on it in accordance with these Regulations by a relevant joint authority—
(a)where the relevant joint authority issues a levy on the constituent council in accordance with these Regulations, the constituent council shall pay to the relevant joint authority a sum equal to the amount of the levy; and
(b)where the relevant joint authority does not issue a levy on the constituent council in accordance with these Regulations, the constituent council shall not be liable to pay any sum to the relevant joint authority only by virtue of having anticipated a levy from the relevant joint authority.
(5) In this regulation, a “relevant joint authority”, in relation to a constituent council, means a joint waste disposal authority with power under these Regulations to issue a levy on that council.
1992 c. 14. Sections 32 and 43 were amended by the Police Act 1997 (1997 c. 50), section 134(1), Schedule 9, paragraphs 67 and 68(2) and (3), the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001(2001 c. 16), section 137, Schedule 7, Part 5(1), the Local Government Act 2003 (2003 c. 26), section 127(2), Schedule 8, Part 1, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, section 174(2), Schedule 17, Part 2 and S.I. 1994/246, 1995/234, 1996/56, 1999/296, 2000/717, 2005/190. There is other amending legislation in relation to Wales. Modified by S.I. 1993/22, 1995/161 and 1995/2889. Section 43 is disapplied by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (1999 c. 29), section 85.