The Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention and Levy and Safety Net) (Amendment) and (Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) Regulations 2019 No. 709

PART 3 Levy and safety net

Amendment of regulation 6

14.  In regulation 6 (individual levy rates and safety net thresholds)—

(a) in paragraph (2A), for “or (2D)” substitute “, (2D), (2E) or (2F)”;

(b) in paragraph (2D), after “Schedule 3,” insert “and a pool of authorities(1) named within those Parts,”;

(c) after paragraph (2D), insert—

“(2E) For an authority—

(a) listed in Part 6 of Schedule 3 (other than Coventry City Council); or

(b) listed in Parts 20 to 34 of that Schedule, and a pool of authorities named within those Parts,

the individual levy rate for a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2019 is zero.

(2F) For an authority listed in column A of the table in Schedule 5, for a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2019 the authority’s individual levy rate is 0.5 or the figure calculated in accordance with the formula in paragraph (2G), whichever is less.

(2G) The formula is—

where—

• E is the authority’s baseline funding level for the year beginning on 1st April 2019; and

• F is the authority’s business rates baseline for the year beginning on 1st April 2019.”.

(1)

See paragraph 45 of Schedule 7B to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 for the meaning of “pool of authorities”.