The Business Improvement Districts (Property Owners) (England) Regulations 2014

Instructions to hold a BRS-BID ballot, renewal ballot, alteration ballot or re-ballot

6.—(1) Where the relevant billing authority—

(a) subject to paragraph (2), receives a notice pursuant to regulation 5(2)(a)(ii);

(b) in the case where a local authority BRS-BID body is responsible for implementing the BRS-BID arrangements, decides to seek approval of alteration proposals or renewal proposals, as the case may be;

(c) receives a notification from the Secretary of State under regulation 11(10) requiring it to arrange a re-ballot; or

(d) decides to seek approval of BRS-BID proposals which it has drawn up,

it shall instruct the ballot holder to hold a BRS-BID ballot, a renewal ballot, an alteration ballot or re-ballot, as the case may be.

(2) Where the relevant billing authority receives a notice pursuant to regulation 5(2)(a)(ii), it shall not be required to instruct the ballot holder under paragraph (1) until such time as the BRS-BID proposer or BRS-BID body, as the case may be, complies with the requirements of regulation 5(1) and (2).

(3) As soon as practicable after instructing the ballot holder to hold a ballot, the billing authority shall give written notice that it has done so to the person who draws up the BRS-BID proposals, the BRS-BID body or the local authority BRS-BID body, as the case may.