{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/317",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-etc-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“baseline amount”, in relation to a billing authority, means the amount calculated under Part 3 of Schedule 2 in respect of a designated area for a specified year;\n“billing authority” means a billing authority in England all or part of whose area falls within a designated area;\n“Birmingham City Centre Curzon Extension Designated Area” means the area designated in Schedule 1 by reference to the areas bounded externally by the outer edge of the blue line shown on maps 87 to 102;\n“designated area” means an area designated under regulation 4(1);\n“local list” means a local non-domestic rating list;\n“non-domestic rating income”, in relation to a billing authority, means the amount calculated under Part 2 of Schedule 2 in respect of a designated area for a specified year;\n“period of designation” means—\n(a)for the Birmingham City Centre Curzon Extension Designated Area, the period of 30 years specified in regulation 4(3);\n(b)for any other designated area, the period of 25 years specified in regulation 4(2);\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 a chargeable financial year falling within the period of designation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (1.4.2017) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/318), regs. 1(2), 8(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/318), regs. 1(2), 8(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 41(1) of the 1988 Act for the meaning of “local non-domestic rating list”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 145(1) of the 1988 Act 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/uksi/2016/317/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:58.288589+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."
}