{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-improvement-districts-property-owners-england-regulations-2014/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-improvement-districts-property-owners-england-regulations-2014/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111122006",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Improvement Districts (Property Owners) (England) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-business-improvement-districts-property-owners-england-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Alteration of BRS-BID arrangements without an alteration ballot",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), BRS-BID arrangements may be altered without an alteration ballot where the arrangements include a provision to that effect.\n(2) No provision mentioned in paragraph (1) may alter the BRS-BID levy in such a way that would—\n(a) cause any person to be liable to pay the BRS-BID levy who was not previously liable to pay; or\n(b) increase the BRS-BID levy for any person.\n(3) Where paragraph (1) applies, the BRS-BID arrangements must include a provision describing the procedure to make the alteration.\n(4) The procedure referred to in paragraph (3) must include—\n(a) where there is a BRS-BID body, a consultation between the BRS-BID body and the relevant billing authority; and\n(b) where a local authority BRS-BID body is responsible for implementing the BRS-BID arrangements, a consultation between the relevant billing authority and such representatives of the business community for the geographical area of the BID as the authority considers appropriate.\n(5) Where the BRS-BID arrangements are altered pursuant to this regulation—\n(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 shall send a notice in writing explaining the reason for and the effect of the alteration to each person liable for the BRS-BID levy; and\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111122006/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:00.335696+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."
}