Regulation 5 Apportionment

This regulation applies where the amount to be raised by a National Park authority in respect of any financial year by way of levies is to be borne by more than one relevant billing authority.

Subject to paragraph (4), where agreement as to the apportionment of the said amount is entered into by all the relevant billing authorities before the relevant date, the National Park authority shall secure that the amount to be met by levies issued by it under these Regulations is borne by the relevant billing authorities in that agreed proportion.

Subject to paragraph (4), where the relevant billing authorities have not agreed before the relevant date the proportion of the amount of levies of a National Park authority to be borne by each of those billing authorities, the National Park authority shall secure that the amount to be met by levies issued by it under these Regulations is borne by the relevant billing authorities in the relevant proportion.

A National Park authority may, with the prior consent in writing of a relevant billing authority, issue to that billing authority a levy for a sum greater than that of a levy that may be issued to that billing authority under paragraph (2) or, as the case may be, under paragraph (3).

In this regulation:—

• “the relevant date” means 1st December in the financial year preceding the financial year in respect of which the levy is issued^f1.

• “the relevant proportion”, in relation to a levy issued to a relevant billing authority by a National Park authority named in column (1) of the Schedule to these Regulations, is the figure (expressed as a percentage of the amount to be met by levies issued by that authority to all the relevant billing authorities) set out in column (3) of the said Schedule opposite the name of the appropriate relevant billing authority named in column (2) of that Schedule.