The Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention) Regulations 2013

Schedule of instalments E+W

15.—(1) Where a payment under these Regulations is to be paid according to the schedule of instalments [F1 , subject to paragraph (7),] it is to be paid in [F2 12] instalments such that—

(a) the first instalment is payable on 30th April; and

(b) the subsequent instalments are payable on the 19th day of each of the following [F3 11] months starting in May.

(2) Where an instalment falls to be paid on a Friday or a day that is not a working day, it shall instead be payable on the first working day that is not a Friday following that day.

[F4 (3) [F5 Subject to paragraph (8),] the first four instalments are each to be of 9% of the amount payable and each other instalment is to be 8% of the amount payable.]

(4) A billing authority and a major precepting authority may by agreement vary the schedule of instalments with regard to payments between them.

(5) Any amount paid or transferred in respect of a liability under paragraph 6 of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act or these Regulations for a year, whether or not paid in accordance with paragraph (1) is to be treated as discharging that liability to the extent of the payment.

(6) For the purpose of this regulation “working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in England under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 F6 .

[F7 (7) A central share payment in relation to the relevant year beginning on 1st April 2020 is to be paid in 9 instalments, such that—

(a) the first instalment is payable on 19th July 2020; and

(b) the subsequent instalments are payable on the 19th day of each of the following 8 months.

(8) For a central share payment in relation to the relevant year beginning on 1st April 2020—

(a) the first instalment is to be of 9% of the amount payable;

(b) the second and third instalments are each to be of 8% of the amount payable; and

(c) the final six instalments are each to be of 12.5% of the amount payable.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 15(1) inserted (29.4.2020) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments and Rates Retention) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/449), regs. 1(3), 3(3)(a)

F2 Word in reg. 15(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Shale Oil and Gas and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/628), regs. 1(2), 12(3)(a)

F3 Word in reg. 15(1)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Shale Oil and Gas and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/628), regs. 1(2), 12(3)(b)

F4 Reg. 15(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Shale Oil and Gas and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/628), regs. 1(2), 12(3)(c)

F5 Words in reg. 15(3) inserted (29.4.2020) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments and Rates Retention) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/449), regs. 1(3), 3(3)(b)

F6 1971 c.80.

F7 Reg. 15(7)(8) inserted (29.4.2020) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments and Rates Retention) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/449), regs. 1(3), 3(3)(c)