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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-multipliers-and-private-schools-act-2025/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/12",
  "legislation_title": "Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-multipliers-and-private-schools-act-2025",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Determination of additional multipliers",
  "text": "(1) Part A1 of Schedule 7 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (non-domestic rating multipliers for England) is amended as follows.\n(2) In Chapter 1—\n(a) in paragraph A1—\n(i) omit “and” at the end of paragraph (a);\n(ii) at the end of paragraph (b) insert,\n“, and\n(c) together with regulations under this Part, other non-domestic rating multipliers.”;\n(b) in paragraph A2, after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) Chapter 3A makes provision about the making of regulations which provide for the calculation of other non-domestic rating multipliers;”.\n(3) After Chapter 3 insert—\n“Chapter 3A\nOther non-domestic rating multipliers\nA6A (1) The Treasury may by regulations make provision for the calculation of multipliers applicable in relation to England that produce multipliers for a given financial year that are—\n(a) higher, but not more than 0.1 higher, than the non-domestic rating multiplier for that year, or\n(b) lower than the non-domestic rating multiplier for that year, but not more than 0.2 lower than the small business non-domestic rating multiplier for that year.\n(2) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1)(b)—\n(a) may not provide for the calculation of more than two multipliers;\n(b) may provide for adjustments to a calculation so that it produces a different multiplier for a given financial year for the purposes of Schedule 4ZB or 5A (or both) to the multiplier for that year for the purposes of Schedule 4ZA.”\n(4) In Chapter 4 (making and giving notice of calculations etc), in paragraph A7(1)(a), for “the non-domestic rating multiplier and the small business non-domestic rating multiplier” substitute “each multiplier about which provision is made by or under this Part of this Schedule”.\n(5) In Chapter 6 (regulations), in paragraph A12—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1) for “paragraph A10(4)(b)” substitute “this Part of this Schedule”;\n(b) for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) A statutory instrument containing (whether alone or with other provision) regulations under paragraph A6A(1)(a) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.\n(3) A statutory instrument to which sub-paragraph (2) or paragraph 9B(3) does not apply containing regulations under paragraph A6A or A10(4)(b) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at Royal Assent but the amendments have effect in accordance with s. 6(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/12/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:58.213393+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."
}