Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “BID” means business improvement district;

• “BID arrangements” means—

  1. (a)

     “BID arrangements” within the meaning given in section 41(1) of the Local Government Act 2003^f1;

  2. (b)

     “joint BID arrangements” within the meaning given in regulation 1A of the Business Improvement Districts (England) Regulations 2004^f2;

  3. (c)

     “BRS-BID arrangements” within the meaning given in paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 to the Business Rate Supplements Act 2009^f3;

  4. (d)

     “joint BRS-BID arrangements” within the meaning given in regulation 22 of the Business Improvement Districts (Property Owners) (England) Regulations 2014^f4;

• “BID body” means, where a local authority BID body is not responsible for implementing the BID arrangements, the body (whether corporate or not) responsible for implementing the BID arrangements;

• “billing authority” has the meaning given in section 59(1)(a) of the Local Government Act 2003;

• “business improvement district” has the meaning given in section 41(1) of the Local Government Act 2003;

• “local authority BID body” means, where the relevant billing authority or a company under the control of that authority (within the meaning given in section 68 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989^f5) is responsible for implementing the BID arrangements, that authority or, as the case may be, that company;

• “relevant billing authority” means the billing authority for the area of the BID.