The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2014

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 17th February 2014.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

“designated area” means an area designated by regulation 3 and Schedule 1;

“local list” means a list compiled and maintained in accordance with section 41 of the 1988 Act(1);

“non-domestic rating income” has the meaning given by Schedule 2;

“preceding year” means the year immediately preceding the year for which a calculation under these Regulations is being made;

“relevant billing authority” means a billing authority in England all or part of whose area falls within a designated area;

“small business non-domestic rating multiplier”, in relation to a year, means the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the year determined under Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act(2); and

“specified year” means a year falling within the period specified in regulation 4.

Designation of areas

3.  The areas referred to in Schedule 1 are designated for the purposes of these Regulations.

Period of designation

4.  The designations made by regulation 3 and Schedule 1 take effect on 1st April 2014 and remain in effect for a period of 25 years beginning with that date.

Calculation of the proportion of non-domestic rating income to be disregarded

5.—(1) Schedule 2 contains rules for the calculation, in relation to each relevant billing authority and for each specified year, of a proportion of the authority’s non-domestic rating income in respect of the designated area or areas within which all or part of the authority’s area falls.

(2) The amount calculated in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 2 in relation to a relevant billing authority for a specified year in respect of a designated area is to be disregarded for the purposes of the calculations under the following provisions of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act as those provisions apply to the authority for the year—

(a) paragraph 6 (payments in respect of the central share);

(b) regulations under paragraph 7 (administrative arrangements for payments in respect of the central share);

(c) regulations under paragraph 9 (payments by billing authorities to major precepting authorities);

(d) regulations under paragraph 10 (administrative arrangements for payments by billing authorities to major precepting authorities);

(e) paragraph 13 (calculations following local government finance report);

(f) paragraph 16 (calculations following amending report);

(g) paragraph 23 (calculations of levy payments);

(h) paragraph 26 (calculations of safety net payments);

(i) regulations under paragraph 28 (calculations of payments on account);

(j) paragraph 30 (calculations relating to distribution of remaining balance).

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Mark Lancaster

Stephen Crabb

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

16th January 2014

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Brandon Lewis

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

20th January 2014