The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2013

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 1 Local retention of non-domestic rates: designation of areas

1.  Each of the areas listed in column 1 of the table in this Schedule is designated by reference to the area or areas bounded externally by the outer edge of the blue line shown on the map or maps specified in column 2 of the table.

2.  A reference in this Schedule to a map is to one of the maps numbered 1 to 117 and entitled “Maps referred to in Schedule 1 to the Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2013”, of which prints, signed by a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department for Communities and Local Government, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and, in relation to each map, at the offices of the relevant billing authority to which the map relates.

3.  For the purposes of determining a designated area, where part only of a hereditament is situated within an area shown on a map, the whole of the hereditament is taken to be included within that designated area.

Designated area (Column 1)	Numbered map (Column 2)	Baseline figure (see paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 2) (Column 3)
Birmingham City Centre	1 to 26	3,774,888
Black Country South Staffordshire	117	Nil
Black Country Walsall	27	164,848
Black Country Wolverhampton	28	83,015
Alconbury Enterprise Campus	29	597,001
Newquay Aerohub	30	402,551
Nottingham City	31, 34 and 35	3,847,068
Nottingham Broxtowe	32 and 33	1,050,656
Humber Port Corridor Hull	37	Nil
Humber Port Corridor East Riding	36	Nil
Humber Port Corridor North East Lincolnshire	38	Nil
Humber Super Energy Cluster Hull	39 and 41 to 45	150,463
Humber Super Energy Cluster East Riding	40	91,596
Humber Super Energy Cluster North Lincolnshire	46	914,373
Lancashire Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing South Ribble	47	Nil
Lancashire Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Ribble Valley	48	1,744,980
Lancashire Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing Fylde	49	1,869,566
Aire Valley Leeds	50	881,475
MIRA Technology Park	51	850,734
Sci-Tech Daresbury	52	31,174
Mersey Waters Liverpool	53	3,434,396
Mersey Waters Wirral	54	2,733
Royal Docks	55	224,767
Manchester Airport City	56 to 60	5,658,084
New Anglia Great Yarmouth	61 and 62	260,529
New Anglia Waveney	63 to 66	Nil
North East Sunderland	67 to 69	133,736
North East Northumberland	70 to 72	11,106
North East Newcastle	73	64,842
North East North Tyneside	74 and 75	516,416
Science Vale UK	76 and 77	1,133,055
Sheffield City Region Sheffield	80, 85 and 87 to 91	1,576,208
Sheffield City Region Barnsley	78	83,533
Sheffield City Region Chesterfield	92 and 93	Nil
Sheffield City Region Rotherham	79, 81 to 84 and 86	315,768
Solent Fareham	94	92,746
Solent Gosport	95	408,435
Harlow	96 and 97	2,754,899
Northampton Waterside	98	3,194,482
Tees Valley Stockton	99 and 102	Nil
Tees Valley Hartlepool	100 and 103	Nil
Tees Valley Redcar and Cleveland	101, 104, 106 and 107	Nil
Tees Valley Middlesbrough	105	Nil
Hereford	108	219,879
West of England	109	12,413,383
Gateshead Development Area	110	1,082,810
Newcastle Development Area	111 to 113	5,598,739
Nottingham Development Area	114	5,489,940
Sheffield Development Area	115	1,443,449
Liverpool City	116	29,424,796

Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 2 Rules for calculation of the amount to be disregarded

PART 1 Calculation of the proportion of non-domestic rating income to be disregarded for the purpose of calculations under Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act

1.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 5, but subject to sub-paragraph (2), the proportion of a relevant billing authority’s non-domestic rating income for a specified year in respect of a designated area within which all or part of the authority’s area falls is the difference between—

(a) the amount of the authority’s non-domestic rating income for that year in respect of that area calculated in accordance with Part 2; and

(b) the amount calculated in relation to the authority for that year in respect of that area in accordance with Part 3.

(2) Where the amount calculated in accordance with Part 3 is greater than or equal to the amount calculated in accordance with Part 2, the proportion for the purposes of regulation 5 is zero.

PART 2 Calculation of non-domestic rating income

2.—(1) A relevant billing authority’s non-domestic rating income in respect of a designated area for a specified year is the amount calculated in accordance with the formula—

where—

• A is the total of the amounts credited to the authority’s collection fund income and expenditure account in the year in accordance with proper practices(1) in respect of non-domestic rates payable under sections 43 and 45 of the 1988 Act in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area;

• B is the total of the amounts charged to the authority’s collection fund income and expenditure account in the year in accordance with proper practices in respect of non-domestic rates payable under sections 43 and 45 of the 1988 Act in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area;

• C is the amount of any transitional protection payments under paragraph 33(1) of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act made to the authority in the year in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area;

• D is the amount of any transitional protection payments under paragraph 33(1) of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act made by the authority in the year in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area;

• E is the total of the amounts credited to the authority’s collection fund income and expenditure account in the year in accordance with proper practices in respect of non-domestic rates payable under sections 43 and 45 of the 1988 Act in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area to which sub-paragraph (2) applies;

• F is the total of the amounts charged to the authority’s collection fund income and expenditure account in the year in accordance with proper practices in respect of non-domestic rates payable under sections 43 and 45 of the 1988 Act in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area to which sub-paragraph (2) applies;

• G is the amount of transitional protection payments under paragraph 33(1) of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act made by the authority in the year in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area to which sub-paragraph (2) applies;

• H is the amount of transitional protection payments under paragraph 33(1) of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act made to the authority in the year in respect of hereditaments situated in the designated area to which sub-paragraph (2) applies.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to a hereditament which—

(a) is to be treated as one hereditament by virtue of regulations under section 64(3)(b) of the 1988 Act; and

(b) would have constituted three or more separate hereditaments had regulations under section 64(3)(b) not been made.

(3) In this paragraph, references to an authority’s collection fund income and expenditure account is a reference to a revenue account to which, in accordance with proper practices, are credited or charged amounts in respect of the authority’s income or expenditure relating to sums paid or to be paid into or payments met or to be met from the authority’s collection fund.

PART 3 Calculation of the amount deducted from non-domestic rating income

3.—(1) If the specified year is not a year in which local lists must be compiled, the amount to be calculated for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) in relation to the authority for the year in respect of the area is that described in sub-paragraph (2) or (3) (as the case may be).

(2) For the year beginning on 1st April 2013, that amount is calculated in accordance with the formula—

where—

• J is the figure provided in column 3 of the table in Schedule 1 in relation to the designated area;

• K₂ is the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the year beginning on 1st April 2013; and

• K₁ is the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the year beginning on 1st April 2012.

(3) For the year beginning on 1st April 2014, and for a subsequent specified year which is not a year in which local lists must be compiled, that amount is calculated in accordance with the formula—

where—

• L is the amount calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (2), this sub-paragraph or paragraph 4(2), as the case may be, for the preceding year;

• M₂ is the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the specified year concerned; and

• M₁ is the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the preceding year.

4.—(1) If the specified year is a year in which local lists must be compiled (“the revaluation year”), the amount to be calculated for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) in relation to the authority for the year in respect of the area is that described in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) That amount is the amount calculated in accordance with the formula—

where—

• N is the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 3(2) or 3(3), as the case may be, for the preceding year;

• P is the aggregate rateable values shown in the relevant billing authority’s local list for 1st April in the revaluation year for the hereditaments, other than those hereditaments to which paragraph 2(2) applies, falling within the designated area;

• Q is the aggregate rateable values shown in the relevant billing authority’s local list for 31st March in the preceding year for the hereditaments, other than those hereditaments to which paragraph 2(2) applies, falling within the designated area;

• R₂ is the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the revaluation year;

• R₁ is the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the preceding year.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, the rateable value of a hereditament shown in the relevant billing authority’s local list for 31st March in the preceding year is to be taken to be the rateable value that would have been shown in that list for that day had the circumstances relating to that hereditament been as they were on 1st April in the revaluation year.

(1)

The meaning of proper practices is given in section 21 of the Local Government Act 2003 (c.26), which applies to these Regulations by virtue of subsection (4)(e) of that section.