{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-contributions-england-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-contributions-england-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2435",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-contributions-england-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“charging authority” means an English charging authority;\n“preceding year” means a chargeable financial year preceding the year for which a calculation of a non-domestic rating contribution or a recalculation of a provisional amount is being made;\n“provisional amount” means, except in regulation 5(1)(a), the provisional amount arrived at under paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 to the Act as regards a charging authority for a financial year, or the amount for the time being treated as that amount in accordance with regulation 6 of these Regulations;\n“relevant day” means a day in the chargeable financial year for which a calculation of a non-domestic rating contribution or a recalculation of a provisional amount is being made.\n(2) In Schedules 1 and 2 to these Regulations, a reference to the chargeable amounts payable to a charging authority under sections 43 and 45 of the Act shall in relation to a special authority be taken to be a reference to the chargeable amounts which would be payable to the authority under those sections if the authority’s non-domestic rating multiplier were equal to the required minimum for the chargeable financial year in respect of which the chargeable amounts are payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 45 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2793",
      "affecting_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/1516",
      "affecting_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2435/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:27.875071+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."
}