Part VIE+W Rate Support Grant

New system of rate support grantsE+W

61 Supplementary reports. E+W

(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, after a Rate Support Grant Report has been made for any such year the Secretary of State may, at such time or times as he thinks fit, make one or more supplementary reports for that year.

(2)Section 60(3) to (5), (7) and (9) above shall apply to a supplementary report as they apply to a Rate Support Grant Report.

(3)Subject to subsections (4) and (5) below, a supplemetary report may specify fresh determinations in place of all or any of those specified by the Rate Support Grant Report.

(4)The Secretary of State may not in a supplementary report vary the aggregate amount of domestic rate relief grant determined by him for any year in the Rate Support Grant Report for that year.

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F1(5)The power conferred by subsections (3) above shall be exercisable only in accordance with principles applicable to all local authorities and specified in the supplementary report.

(6)In addition to specifying any fresh determinations a supplemetary report shall specify [F2such explanation as the Secretary of State thinks desirable of their main features]

[F3(6A)A supplementary report may specify fresh principles for the calculation of a grant-related poundage in place of those specofied in the Rate Support Grant Report and in that event that poundage shall be recalculated on fresh principles.]

(7)If a supplmentary report is approved by a resolution of the House of Commons, any payment of any of the relevant grants for the year may be made inly in accordance with the Rate Support Grant Report for the year (as so approved, as varied by the supplementary report for the year (as so approved).