Community Charges (General Reduction) Act 1991

4 Compensatory grants

(1) For the 1991 financial year, the Secretary of State shall pay to each charging authority and to each local authority a grant of such amount as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine.

(2) A grant under this section shall be paid at such times, or in instalments of such amounts and at such times, as the Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury determine.

(3) In making any payment of grant under this section, the Secretary of State may impose such conditions as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine; and the conditions may relate to the repayment in specified circumstances of all or part of the amount paid, or any other matter.

(4) In determining the amount of a grant under this section, the Secretary of State shall have regard to his estimate of the aggregate of—

(a) any amount which, by virtue of section 1 or section 3 above, the authority might reasonably be expected to lose, or to have lost, by way of payments in respect of community charges for the 1991 financial year; and

(b) any administrative expenses which the authority might reasonably be expected to incur in consequence of the provisions of this Act.

(5) There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any sums required for the payment by the Secretary of State of grants under this section.

(6) Any sums received by the Secretary of State in consequence of this section shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

(7) In this section—

(a) “charging authority” has the same meaning as in the 1988 Act; and

(b) “local authority” has the same meaning as in the 1987 Act.