The Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019

Amendment of regulation 5 E+W

13.  In regulation 5 (business rates baseline and baseline funding level)—

(a) after paragraph (1A), insert—

“(1B) For the year commencing on 1st April 2019 the business rates baseline of an authority listed in column A of the table in Schedule 5 is the amount specified with respect to that authority in column B of that table.”;

(b) in paragraph (3), at the beginning insert “ Unless paragraph (3ZA) or (3ZB) applies, ”;

(c) after paragraph (3), insert—

“(3ZA) The baseline funding level of the Council of the Isles of Scilly—

(a) for the year commencing on 1st April 2018 is £1,478,412;

(b) for the year commencing on 1st April 2019 is £1,526,779.

(3ZB) For the year commencing on 1st April 2019, the baseline funding level for an authority listed in column A of the table in Schedule 5 is the amount listed in column C of the table in Schedule 5.”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 13 in force at 28.3.2019, see reg. 1(2)