Regulation 5 Apportionment of levies

(1)

In regulation 7(4)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (a) for “or the West Yorkshire Combined Authority” substitute “, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority or the West Midlands Combined Authority”;

(b)

after sub-paragraph (ab), omit the word “and” and insert—

“(ac)
in the case of the levies to be issued by the Tees Valley Combined Authority, in accordance with regulation 7C, and”.

(2)

In regulation 7(5)—

(a)

for “or the Greater Manchester Combined Authority” substitute “, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Combined Authority, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority or the West Midlands Combined Authority”;

(b)

for “Registrar General” substitute “Statistics Board”^f1.

(3)

After regulation 7B insert the following regulation—

“Calculation and apportionment of levies issued by the Tees Valley Combined Authority

7C.

(1)
The amounts of the levies to be issued by the Tees Valley Combined Authority (“the Authority”) to its constituent councils for the financial year 2017 to 2018, or any subsequent financial year, are to be determined in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)
The Authority shall apportion its estimated relevant expenditure for the financial year in question in such proportion as its constituent councils agree.

(3)
In default of such agreement, the Authority shall apportion its estimated relevant expenditure for the financial year in question in the same proportion to the amount that each of the constituent councils has spent on the transport functions mentioned in article 6 of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Order 2016 (“the 2016 Order”) in the financial year ending on 31st March 2016.

(4)
Where, as respects any financial year, the Authority estimates that the apportionment of its actual expenditure will differ from that estimated under paragraph (2) or (3), the Authority must make appropriate adjustments to its estimates under paragraph (2) or (3) for the ensuing financial year.

(5)
Those adjustments must be made with a view to ensuring that, so far as practicable and taking one year with another, the proportions in which relevant expenditure is met by the levies payable by the constituent councils under Article 5(3) of the 2016 Order reflect the actual expenditure of the Authority.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 25 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c.14), provides that the Statistics Board is responsible for the functions in section 19 of the Registration Service Act 1953 (c.37), (annual abstract of number of births, deaths and marriages).