Part VI E+W Rate Support Grant

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Part VI extended by ss. 69(1), 82(1), and modified by s. 81(1)(3) of the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1)

C2 Part VI amended by Local Government Finance Act 1987 (c. 6, SIF 81:1), ss. 3, 5 and Rate Support Grants Act 1987 (c. 5, SIF 81:1), s. 1(1)

C3 Part VI excluded by Local Government Act 1987 (c. 6, SIF 81:1), s. 10, Sch. 3 para. 10(2)

C4 Part VI modified by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), s. 82

C5 Pt. VI (ss. 48–68) amended by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 186(1), 231(7), 235(6)

C6 Pt. VI (ss. 48–68) modified by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 191(6), Sch. 15 Pt. II para. 2(1)(b) (as amended by Local Government Finance Act 1987 (c. 6, SIF 81:1), s. 11(1), Sch. 4 paras. 10, 12(3))

C7 Pt. VI (ss. 48–68) amended by Rate Support Grants Act 1988 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1(10), 3(11)

C8 Pt. VI (ss. 48–68) amended by S.I. 1990/1024, art. 4(1)

New system of rate support grants E+W

60 The Rate Support Grant Report. E+W

(1) In this section and section 61 below “the relevant grants” means rate support grants payable under this Part of this Act and grant payable under section 6 or 7 of the M1 Local Government Act 1974 (supplementary grants for transport and National Parks).

(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, the Secretary of State shall make for each year a report (in this Part of this Act called a “Rate Support Grant Report") relating to the relevant grants.

(3) In so far as a Rate Support Grant Report relates to payments of grants under section 6 of the M2 Local Government Act 1974 it shall be made for England by the Minister of Transport.

(4) A Rate Support Grant Report shall be made with the consent of the Treasury.

(5) Before making a Rate Support Grant Report the Secretary of State and the Minister of Transport shall consult such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be concerned and any local authority with whom consultation appears to them to be desirable.

(6) A Rate Support Grant Report shall specify—

(a) all the determinations relating to the relavant grants which are required by any provision of this Part of this Act; and

(b) [F1 such explanation as the Secretary of State thinks desirable of the main features of any such determination]

(7) A Rate Support Grant Report shall be laid before the House of Commons.

(8) No payment of any of the relevant grants for the year shall be made until the Rate Support Grant Report is approved by a resolution of the House of Commons and (subject to section 61 below) any payment may bemade only in accordance with the Rate Support Grant Report as so approved.

(9) The Secretary of State shall send a copy of every Rate Support Grant Report to each local authority as soon as practicable after it has been approved.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Rate Support Grants Act 1986 (c. 54, SIF 103:1), s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 8(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C9 S. 60 modified (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 74(2), 125(2) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7)

C10 S. 60(5) amended by Rate Support Grants Act 1988 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 4(2)–(6)

C11 S. 60(5) modified by Local Government Finance Act 1987 (c. 6, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 10, Sch. 3 para. 1(3)(6)

C12 S. 60(6)(a)(9) amended by Local Government Finance Act 1982 (c. 32, SIF 81:1), s. 10, Sch. 2 para. 6

Marginal Citations

M1 1974 c. 7 (81:1).

M2 1974 c. 7 (81:1).