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(1)Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, the Secretary of State shall, for the commencing year and each subsequent year, make out of money provided by Parliament to local authorities in England and Wales in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act—
(a)a grant to be known as “domestic rate relief grant"; and
(b)a grant to be known as “block grant".
(2)The grants made in pursuance of subsection (1) above shall together be known as “rate support grants".
(3)Rate support grants as defined in section 1 of the Local Goverment Act 1974 shall not be payable for the commencing year or for any subsequent year.
(4)For the commencing year and any subsequent year rate support grants fot local authorities in England and local authorities in Wales may be administered separately and differently; and this Part of this Act shall be construed accordingly in relation to rate support grants for any year for which such grants are so administered.
(5)The following bodies are local authorities for the purposes of this Part of this Act, namely—
(a)the council of a county;
(b)
F1(c)the Inner London Education Authority;
(d)the council of a district;
(e)the council of a London borough;
(f)the Common Council of the City of London; F2
[F3(ff)a joint authority; and]
(g)the Council of the Isles of Scilly.
(6)For the purposes of this Part of this Act the area of the Inner London Education Authority is the Inner London Education Area [F4and the area of a joint authority is the area for which the authority is established.]
(7)The Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple and the Under Treasurer of the Middle Temple are local authorities for the purposes of the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to domestic rate relief grant.
(8)Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, payments in respect ot rate support grants shall be made to a local authority at such times as the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury may specify, and shall be made in aid of the revenues of the authority generally.
(9)In this Part of this Act “the commencing year” means such year as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
(10)The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument direct that any enactment to which this subsection applies shall cease to have effect on such date as the order may specify.
(11)The enactments to which subsection (10) above applies are—
(a)sections 48 to 51 and 52(1)(a) and (2) above;
(b)section 69(3) below;
(c)the provisions specified in Schedule 8 to this Act;
(d)paragraph 31 of Schedule 32 to this Act; and
(e)section 48(1A)(a) of the M1General Rate Act 1967 (standard amount for the purposes of domsetic rate relief.
Textual Amendments
F2Word repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 69(2)(a), 82(1)
F3S. 53(5)(ff) inserted by Local Government Act 1981 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 69(2)(a), 82(1)
F4Words inserted by Local Government Act 1981 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 69(2)(b), 82(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Year beginning 1.4.1981 appointed under s. 53(9) by S.I. 1980/1893, art. 3
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