The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2017/318 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 471

Rating And Valuation, England

The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made

27th March 2017

Laid before Parliament

28th March 2017

Coming into force

1st April 2017

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 143(1) of, and paragraph 39 of Schedule 7B to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1).

These Regulations are made with the consent of the Treasury in accordance with paragraph 39(13) of that Schedule.

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2017.

Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017

2.—(1) The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In column 4 (value of J) of the table in Schedule 1 (local retention of non-domestic rates: designation of areas)—

(a) in the row corresponding to map 45, for “250,658” substitute “249,858”;

(b) in the row corresponding to map 48, for “171,780” substitute “169,680”;

(c) in the row corresponding to map 51, for “290,863” substitute “290,163”; and

(d) in the row corresponding to map 52, for “1,303,156” substitute “1,226,456”.

We consent

Stephen Barclay

Andrew Griffiths

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

23rd March 2017

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

Marcus Jones

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

27th March 2017

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/318) designate areas in England (“designated areas”) for the purpose of paragraph 39 of Schedule 7B to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”) (local retention of non-domestic rates). They provide rules for calculating in respect of a billing authority in England all or part of whose area falls within a designated area—

(a) the billing authority’s non-domestic rating income in respect of the designated area for a specified year; and

(b) the proportion of that non-domestic rating income that is to be disregarded for the purpose of specified calculations under Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act.

These Regulations correct errors contained in the table in Schedule 1 to the Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017 by substituting the correct values for J for four designated areas within the area of Lewes District Council. The value of J is used in respect of each designated area to calculate the proportion of non-domestic rating income that is to be disregarded for the purpose of specified calculations under Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act.

No separate impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations, but the impact assessment prepared for the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17) is relevant:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8470/2054063.pdf

(1)

1988 c. 41. Schedule 7B was inserted into the Local Government Finance Act 1988 by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17).

(2)

S.I. 2017/318.