Amendments to the Greater London Authority Act 1999
3.—(1) The Greater London Authority Act 1999(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 86 (supplementary provisions about calculation of component and consolidated council tax requirements)—
(a)in subsection (4D)(a)(2) (estimate of income in relation to Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime: requirement to use prescribed amounts in respect of redistributed non-domestic rates), for “redistributed” substitute “locally retained”, and
(b)after subsection (4D) insert—
“(4DA) In subsection (4D) above “locally retained non-domestic rates” means the sums received by the Authority under, or under regulations under, Schedule 7B to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, or under regulations under section 99(3) of that Act in connection with the operation of that Schedule.”
(3) In section 99(3) (interpretation of Chapter 1), in the definition of “local government finance report”, for “section 78A of” substitute “paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 7B to”.
(4) In the heading to Chapter 2 of Part 3, for “redistributed” substitute “locally retained”.
(5) In section 102 (duty of Mayor to distribute grants etc between Authority and functional bodies)—
(a)in subsection (2)(e) (inclusion of sums received by the Authority in respect of redistributed non-domestic rates in aggregate for distribution), for “redistributed” substitute “locally retained”, and
(b)after subsection (8) insert—
“(9) The reference in subsection (2)(e) to the sums received by the Authority for the financial year in respect of locally retained non-domestic rates is to the sums received by it in the year under, or under regulations under, Schedule 7B to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, or under regulations under section 99(3) of that Act in connection with the operation of that Schedule.”
Subsection (4D) was inserted by section 76 of the Localism Act 2011and amended by paragraph 52 of Part 2 of Schedule 16 to the Police and Social Reform Act 2011 (c.13).
Section 99 was amended by section 12 of the Greater London Authority Act 2007 (c.24) and paragraph 38 of Schedule 7 to the Localism Act 2011.