{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-rate-supplements-act-2009/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-rate-supplements-act-2009/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/7",
  "legislation_title": "Business Rate Supplements Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-rate-supplements-act-2009",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Approval by ballot",
  "text": "(1) The imposition of a BRS is approved if—\n(a) a majority of the persons voting in the ballot have voted in favour of the imposition of the BRS, and\n(b) A exceeds B.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—\n“A” is the aggregate of the rateable values of each hereditament in respect of which a person voting in the ballot has voted in favour of the imposition of the BRS, and\n“B” is the aggregate of the rateable values of each hereditament in respect of which a person voting in the ballot has voted against the imposition of the BRS.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the rateable value of a hereditament is its rateable value on the day of the ballot.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1) substituted (15.1.2012 for E.) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), ss., 68(4), 240(3)(c) (with s. 68(7)); S.I. 2012/57, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 19.8.2009 for E. by S.I. 2009/2202, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/7/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:12.712152+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}