{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-non-domestic-rating-designated-area-regulations-2021/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-non-domestic-rating-designated-area-regulations-2021/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348218862",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Area) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-non-domestic-rating-designated-area-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“baseline amount”, in relation to the billing authority, means the amount calculated under Part 3 of Schedule 2 in respect of the designated area for a specified year;\n“billing authority” means the billing authority in England part of whose area falls within the designated area;\n“designated area” means the area designated under regulation 3(1);\n“local list” means a local non-domestic rating list;\n“non-domestic rating income”, in relation to the billing authority, means the amount calculated under Part 2 of Schedule 2 in respect of the designated area for a specified year;\n“preceding year” means the chargeable financial year immediately preceding the specified year for which a calculation under Part 3 of Schedule 2 is made;\n“revaluation year” means a year in which a local list must be compiled under section 41 of the 1988 Act;\n“Schedule 7B” means Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act;\n“small business non-domestic rating multiplier”, in relation to a chargeable financial year, means the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for that year determined under Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act; and\n“specified year” means, in relation to the designated area, a chargeable financial year falling within the period of years specified in relation to that area in regulation 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 41(1) of the 1988 Act for the meaning of “local non-domestic rating list”. Section 41(1) was amended by paragraph 59 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 145(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 for the meaning of “chargeable financial year”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Relevant amendments were made to Schedule 7 by section 62 of the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348218862/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:48:01.566309+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."
}