The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004
S.I. 2004/3234 · Made 8 December 2004
RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND
Made 8th December 2004
Laid before Parliament 10th December 2004
Coming into force 31st December 2004
The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988f1 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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1988 c. 41. These powers are devolved, in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1.
Contents
- 1Citation and commencement
- 2Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992
- 3Interpretation
- 4Rules for the calculation of non-domestic rating contributions
- 5Assumptions relating to provisional amounts
- Signature
- Explanatory note
1Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 31st December 2004.
2Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992f1 are amended as follows in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2005.
3Interpretation
In regulation 2(2)(a), (b) and (c), for the word “multiplier” substitute “multipliers”.
4Rules for the calculation of non-domestic rating contributions
In Schedule 1 –
in paragraph 1(4), for “2004” substitute “2005”.
in paragraph 4(4), for “2004 is £84,106,000” substitute “2005 is £83,606,000”; and
for Part II substitute–
“PART II
COST FACTORS
Name or description of authority Cost factor The councils of the districts of Bracknell Forest, Crawley, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Slough, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Windsor and Maidenhead and Woking 1.1409 The councils of the districts of Broxbourne, Chiltern, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, St Albans, South Buckinghamshire, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield 1.1119 The councils of the districts of Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham 1.1185 The councils of the districts of Basildon, Brentwood, Epping Forest, Harlow, Dartford, Sevenoaks and Thurrock 1.0942 The councils of the districts of Aylesbury Vale, Milton Keynes and Wycombe 1.0815 The council of a district which falls within the county of Oxfordshire 1.074 The councils of the districts of Bedford, Luton, Mid Bedfordshire, North Hertfordshire, South Bedfordshire and Stevenage 1.0506 The councils of the districts of Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough and South Cambridgeshire 1.0499 The councils of the districts of Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Portsmouth, Rushmoor, Southampton, Test Valley and Winchester 1.0433 The councils of the districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, Mid Sussex and Worthing 1.0225 The council of a district which falls within the county of Warwickshire 1.0297 The councils of the districts of Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, Swindon and West Wiltshire 1.0337 The councils of the districts of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire 1.0386 The council of a district which falls within the county of Northamptonshire 1.0254 The councils of the districts of Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Medway, Shepway, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Maling and Tunbridge Wells 1.014 The council of a district which falls within the county of Gloucestershire 1.0229 The council of a district which falls within the West Midlands metropolitan county 1.0271 The councils of the districts of Chester, Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Halton, Macclesfield , Vale Royal and Warrington 1.0244 The council of a district which falls within the Greater Manchester metropolitan county 1.021 The councils of the districts of Braintree, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-sea, Tendring and Uttlesford 1.0129 The councils of the districts of Brighton and Hove, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother and Wealden 1.0162 The council of a district which falls within the county of Suffolk 1.0075 The council of a district which falls within the West Yorkshire metropolitan county 1.0129 The council of a district which falls within the county of Leicestershire 1.0073 The council of a district other than a district named, or falling within a description given, above 1.0 The council of an inner London borough 1.2602 The councils of the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton 1.1429 The councils of the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Haringey, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest 1.0849 The Common Council of the City of London 1.4715 The Council of the Isles of Scilly 1.0 The Isle of Wight Council 1.0433 ”
5Assumptions relating to provisional amounts
In Schedule 2 –
in paragraph 2(12) for “0.959” substitute “0.987”;.and
for the table in paragraph 8(1) substitute the following–
“
Name or description of authority Percentage The council of a metropolitan district 0.9 The council of a non-metropolitan district which has the functions of a county council 0.7 The council of a non-metropolitan district which does not have the functions of a county council 0.5 The council of an inner London borough, and the Common Council of the City of London 0.7 The council of an outer London Borough 1,0 The Council of the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight Council 0.7 ”
Signature
Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State
Nick Raynsford
Minister of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
8th December 2004
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Under Part II of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”), billing authorities are required to pay amounts (called non-domestic rating contributions) to an account held by the Secretary of State (“the national non-domestic rating pool”). The national non-domestic rating pool is subsequently distributed to authorities under the rules in Part III of Schedule 8 to the 1988 Act. Payments into the national non-domestic rating pool in respect of the provisional amount of the non-domestic rating contributions are made during the financial year, final calculations and adjustments of the non-domestic rating contributions are made after the year ends.
These Regulations amend the rules for calculation of non-domestic rating contributions and the assumptions to be made in calculating the provisional amount of the non-domestic rating contributions contained in the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”), for financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2005. They make amendments in relation to—
the offset for a special authority in paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations;
the national cost of collection figure in paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations;
the cost factors in Part II of Schedule 1 to the 1992 Regulations;
the buoyancy factor in paragraph 2(12) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 regulations; and
the losses in collection percentages in paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations.
Following an amendment to the 1988 Act by sections 61 and 62 of the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26), a small business non-domestic rating multiplier is created in addition to the existing standard non-domestic rating multiplier. The amendments to regulation 2 of the 1992 Regulations are consequential to the creation of this new multiplier.