PART XIII GENERAL FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

Housing subsidy

425The local contribution differential.

(1)

A F1F2development corporation’s local contribution differential for a year of account is the amount by which their reckonable income for that year exceeds their reckonable income for the preceding year (and accordingly is nil or, as the case may be, a negative amount if their reckonable income for the year is the same as or less than that for the preceding year).

(2)

F3A corporation’s reckonable income for a year is the amount which, in accordance with any determination made by the Secretary of State, the F4corporation are assumed to receive for that year as income which they are required to carry to their F3housing account including—

(a)

any contribution made by the F4corporation out of their F3general revenue account, and

(b)

any rent rebate subsidy payable under F5F6section 140Aof the Social Security Administration Act 1992,

but excluding any other subsidy, grant or contribution.

(3)

A determination shall state the assumptions on which it is based and the method of calculation used in it, and in making it the Secretary of State shall have regard, amongst other things, to past and expected movements in incomes, costs and prices.

F7(4)

A determination may be made for all F2development corporations or different determinations may be made for different corporations or groups of corporations.

(5)

Before making a determination for all F8F2development corporations the Secretary of State shall consult organisations appearing to him to be representative of F8F2development corporations.

(6)

A determination shall be made known to the F9corporations for which it is made in the year preceding the year of account for which it is to have effect.