Alterations of the BRS-BID arrangements following a ballot
19.—(1) Where there is a proposal to alter—
(a)BRS-BID arrangements and those arrangements do not include a provision allowing for the arrangements to be altered without a ballot; or
(b)the BRS-BID levy in such a way that would—
(i)cause any person to be liable to pay the BRS-BID levy who was not previously liable to pay; or
(ii)increase the BRS-BID levy for any person,
the BRS-BID body or, where a local authority BRS-BID body is responsible for implementing the BRS-BID arrangements, the relevant billing authority may alter the BRS-BID arrangements in accordance with this regulation.
(2) An alteration of the BRS-BID arrangements under this regulation is not to come into force unless the alteration proposals are approved by a ballot of the persons who have a relevant property interest who are to be liable for the BRS-BID levy under the BRS-BID arrangements (as altered) (“an alteration ballot”) and they are not to be regarded as approved by an alteration ballot unless—
(a)a majority of the persons voting in the alteration ballot have voted in favour of the alteration proposals; and
(b)the aggregate of the rateable values of each hereditament in respect of which a person voting in the alteration ballot has voted in favour of the alteration proposals exceeds the aggregate of the rateable values of each hereditament in respect of which a person voting in the alteration ballot has voted against the alteration proposals.
(3) Where BRS-BID arrangements are altered pursuant to this regulation—
(a)the billing authority shall ensure the BRS-BID arrangements (as altered) are made by the time those BRS-BID arrangements (as altered) are to come into force; and
(b)sections 44, 46(3) and (4) and 47 of the 2003 Act, paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 2 to the 2009 Act and regulations 16 to 20 and Schedules 3 and 4 shall have effect from the date the BRS-BID arrangements (as altered) come into force as if a reference in each of those provisions to “BRS-BID arrangements” were a reference to the BRS-BID arrangements as altered.