{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/183",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-designated-areas-regulations-2024",
  "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“billing authority” means a billing authority in England, part of whose area falls within a designated area;\n“designated area” means an area designated under regulation 3(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“non-domestic rating multiplier”, in relation to a chargeable financial year, means the non-domestic rating multiplier for the year calculated by the Secretary of State under Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act;\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 calculated by the Secretary of State under Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act;\n“small business rate baseline amount”, in relation to a billing authority, means the amount calculated under paragraph 3 or 4 (as appropriate) of Schedule 2 in respect of a designated area for a specified year;\n“specified year” means, in relation to a designated area, a chargeable financial year falling within the period of years specified in relation to that area in regulation 3(2) or (3) (as the case may be);\n“standard business rate baseline amount”, in relation to a billing authority, means the amount calculated under paragraph 5 or 6 (as appropriate) of Schedule 2 in respect of a designated area for a specified year;\n“total baseline amount”, in relation to a billing authority, means the amount calculated under paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 in respect of a designated area for a specified year.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2024, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 41(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41) for the meaning of “local non-domestic rating list”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Relevant amendments were made to Schedule 7 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 by section 62 of the Local Government Finance Act 2003 (c. 26) and section 15 of, and the Schedule to, the Non-Domestic Rating Act 2023 (c. 53)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 145(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 for the meaning of “chargeable financial year”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 41 was amended by Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), sections 29 and 30 of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c. 27), section 1 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Lists) Act 2021 (c. 8) and section 5 of the Non-Domestic Rating Act 2023 (c. 53)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/183/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:34:33.727425+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."
}