Rate Support Grants Act 1986 (repealed)

SCHEDULES

Section 3.

SCHEDULE 1 E+W Amendments

Determination of grant-related poundages E+W

1 (1) Section 57 of the M1 Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 shall be amended as follows. E+W

(2) For subsection (1) there shall shall be substituted—

“(1) A local authority’s grant-related poundage shall be calculated and their grant-related expenditure shall be determined by the Secretary of State in accordance with principles to be applied to all local authorities or to all local authorities belonging to the appropriate class”.

(3) In subsection (2) for the words “the principles on which the grant-related poundage and the grant-related expenditure are determined” there shall be substituted the words “the principles on which the grant-related poundage is calculated and the grant-related expenditure is determined”.

Marginal Citations

M1 1980 c. 65.

2 E+W After section 61(6) of the said Act of 1980 there shall be inserted—

“(6A) A supplementary report may specify fresh principles for the calculation of a grant-related poundage in place of those specified in the Rate Support Grant Report and in that event that poundage shall be re-calculated on the fresh principles.”

3 (1) In paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the M2 Local Government Finance Act 1982, in the definition of “Receiver’s grant-related poundage” for the word “determined” there shall be subsituted the word “calculated”. E+W

(2) In paragraph 5(2)(b) of that Schedule for the words “to any fresh determination of his grant-related poundage” there shall be substituted the words “any re-calculation of his grant-related poundage on fresh principles specified”.

Marginal Citations

M2 1982 c. 32.

Multipliers E+W

4 (1) Section 59 of the said Act of 1980 shall be amended as follows. E+W

(2) In subsection (5)(b) for the words “in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (6) below” there shall be substituted the words “in paragraphs (b) to (d) of subsection (6) below or in section 2(2) of the Rate Support Grants Act 1986”.

(3) Subsection (6)(a) shall be omitted.

(4) After subsection (6) there shall be inserted—

“(6A) A multiplier may be subject to a maximum determined by the Secretary of State.”

(5) In subsection (11) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) as if paragraph (e) referred to two classes, namely—

(i) councils of inner London boroughs; and

(ii) councils of outer London boroughs;”.

5 E+W In section 8(3) of the said Act of 1982 paragraph (a) shall be omitted and in paragraph (b) for the words “that subsection” there shall be subsituted the words “subsection (6) of that section”.

6 E+W In paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1982 for the words from the beginning to “paragraph (c) or (d) of that subsection” there shall be subsituted the words “In paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section 59 of the principal Act references to a local authority shall include references to the Receiver and the power conferred by this paragraph may only be exercised—

(a) for the purposes specified in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of that subsection or in section 2(2) of the Rate Support Grants Act 1986;”.

7 E+W After paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1982 there shall be inserted—

“(2A) A multiplier determined under this paragraph may be subject to a maximum determined by the Secretary of State.”

Explanation of determinations in rate support grant reports E+W

8 (1) In section 60(6)(b) of the said Act of 1980 for the words “the considerations leading the Secretary of State to make any such determination” there shall be substituted the words “such explanation as the Secretary of State thinks desirable of the main features of any such determination”. E+W

(2) In section 61(6) of that Act for the words “the considerations leading to them” there shall be substituted the words “such explanation as the Secretary of State thinks desirable of their main features”.

9 E+W In section 8(9)(b) of the said Act of 1982 for the words “the considerations leading the Secretary of State to make the determination” there shall be substituted the words “such explanation as the Secretary of State thinks desirable of the main features of the determination.”

Supplementary reports E+W

10 E+W After section 61(4) of the said Act of 1980 there shall be inserted—

“(4A) The Secretary of State shall not in a supplementary report vary a multiplier so far as previously determined for the purpose specified in section 2(2) of the Rate Support Grants Act 1986 (or previously determined or purported to be determined for the purpose specified in section 59(6)(a) above) unless he is satisfied that the variation is required in consequence of the principles specified by him in relation to the original determination not having been correctly applied to it on the basis of the information available to him when it was made.”

Adjustments for matching amount available for block grant E+W

11 E+W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 para. 11 repealed by Rate Support Grants Act 1987 (c. 5, SIF 81:1), s. 1(5)

12 E+W Paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 2 to the said Act of 1982 shall be omitted.

Submission of information E+W

13 E+W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 1 para. 13 repealed by Local Government Finance Act 1987 (c. 6, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 11(2), Sch. 5 (the repeal being subject to the provision at the end of that Sch.)

Section 4(3).

SCHEDULE 2 E+W Repeals

Chapter	Short title	Extent of repeal
1980 c. 65.	The Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980.	Section 59(6)(a).
1982 c. 32.	The Local Government Finance Act 1982.	Section 8(3)(a). In Schedule 2, paragraph 8(2).
1985 c. 51.	The Local Government Act 1985.	Section 69(5)(a). Section 80(1).