Local Government Act 1985

68 Precepts

(1) A new authority may in respect of any financial year beginning after the date on which it is established issue precepts to the appropriate rating authorities for the levying of rates to meet all liabilities falling to be discharged by the authority for which provision is not otherwise made.

(2) The appropriate rating authorities are—

(a) in the case of a joint authority, the rating authorities in the area for which it is established;

(b) in the case of the Inner London Education Authority, the rating authorities in the Inner London Education Area.

(3) In section 12(1) of the [1967 c. 9.] General Rate Act 1967 (supplementary provisions about precepts) after the words "a county council," there shall be inserted the words " a joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985, the Inner London Education Authority" .

(4) Part I of the [1984 c. 33.] Rates Act 1984 (selective limitation of rates and precepts) shall apply to the new authorities and accordingly in section 1(3) of that Act for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) the Inner London Education Authority;

(cc) a joint authority established by Part IV of the Local Government Act 1985; and”.

(5) In section 2(6) of that Act (classes of authority to which common principles are to be applied in designation and in the determination of expenditure levels) the word " and " at the end of paragraph (e) shall be omitted and after paragraph (f) there shall be inserted—

“(g) metropolitan county police authorities and the Northumbria Police Authority;

(h) metropolitan county fire and civil defence authorities; and

(i) metropolitan county passenger transport authorities.”

(6) Each new authority shall be deemed for the purposes of Part I of that Act to have been designated under section 2 of that Act in relation to the financial year beginning on the abolition date and the two subsequent financial years; and—

(a) the principles in accordance with which expenditure levels are determined for those years under section 3 of that Act may differ as between different new authorities ; and

(b) notwithstanding any order bringing section 10 of that Act (general limitation) into force before the end of those years, no new authority shall be treated as designated in relation to any of those years by virtue of that section.