{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025/regulation-69",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273779",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-safety-levy-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/69",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Payment and deduction of administrative expenses",
  "text": "(1) The collecting authority must, in respect of each financial quarter, pay an amount equal to the levy balance for that quarter to the Secretary of State within 42 days of the end of that quarter.\n(2) To determine the levy balance for a financial quarter, take the following steps—\nStep 1\nCalculate the total amount of payments in respect of building safety levy received by the collecting authority during that quarter.\nStep 2\nDeduct the following from the amount determined under Step 1—\n(a) the administrative expenses of the collecting authority during the financial quarter, and\n(b) the total amount of payments made by the collecting authority, during the financial quarter, under regulations 65 and 66.\nStep 3\nIf the levy balance for the immediately preceding financial quarter was a negative amount, deduct the amount of the deficit from the result given after Steps 1 and 2.\n(3) If the levy balance for a financial quarter is a negative amount, paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of that financial quarter.\n(4) In this regulation, “administrative expenses” are the aggregate amount incurred by a collecting authority, in its capacity as collecting authority, on the following—\n(a) employing staff, or engaging contractors, to work on or assist with the collection, administration and enforcement of the building safety levy;\n(b) costs of acquiring, developing, joining and using systems and services, including electronic or online systems and services, to be used in relation to the collection, administration and enforcement of the building safety levy;\n(c) office costs incurred in relation to the collection, administration and enforcement of the building safety levy, including the cost of providing office equipment, stationery, and email, messaging and telephone services;\n(d) costs of maintaining office equipment, systems or services referred to in sub-paragraph (b) and (c), including any specialist advice required to do so;\n(e) costs, including rent, facilities management and provision of utility services, payable in relation to office accommodation used by the staff referred to in sub-paragraph (a), and for space occupied by the equipment, systems and services referred to in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c);\n(f) costs associated with legal proceedings in connection with the building safety levy;\n(g) any other amounts for which the collecting authority is legally liable in connection with the building safety levy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273779/regulation/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:50.608425+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."
}