{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/107",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“Birmingham City Centre 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 1 to 26;\n“designated area” means an area designated by regulation 3 and Schedule 1;\n“local list” means a list compiled and maintained in accordance with section 41 of the 1988 Act;\n“non-domestic rating income” has the meaning given by Schedule 2;\n“period of designation” means—\n(a)for the Birmingham City Centre Designated Area, the period of 33 years specified in regulation 4(2);\n(b)for any other designated area, the period of 25 years specified in regulation 4(1);\n“preceding year” means the year immediately preceding the year for which a calculation under these Regulations is being made;\n“relevant billing authority” means a billing authority in England all or part of whose area falls within a designated area;\n“small business non-domestic rating multiplier”, in relation to a year, means the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for the year determined under Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act; and\n“specified year” means a year falling within the period of designation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2017) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/318), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas etc.) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/318), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 18.2.2013, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 41 was amended by section 139 of, and paragraphs 19 and 79(3) of Schedule 5 to, the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42); section 117(1) of, and paragraph 59 of Schedule 13 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14); section 60(1) of the Local Government Act 2003 (c.26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Relevant amendments were made to Schedule 7 by section 62 of the Local Government Act 2003."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/107/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:06:41.544817+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."
}