# The Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention) Regulations 2013, Paragraph 1: Application and interpretation

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (2A), this Schedule applies to the billing authorities listed in column 1 of the table set out below in relation to a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2016.
(2) This Schedule does not apply to a billing authority listed in Part 4 of Schedule 5 for a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2017.
(2A) This Schedule does not apply in relation to a relevant year beginning on or after 1st April 2021.
(3) In this Schedule—
“allowance for non-collection” means an allowance made by a billing authority in its principal financial statements for a relevant year, in accordance with proper practices, to recognise amounts of non-domestic rates which the billing authority estimates will not be collected;
“growth baseline amount”, in relation to a billing authority, means the figure specified in column 2 of the table set out below in relation to that authority;
“relevant provision” means a provision made by a billing authority in its principal financial statements for a relevant year which, in accordance with proper practices, reflects amounts to be credited to ratepayers following changes to a ratepayers’ liability for non-domestic rates;
“transitional protection payment” means a payment under regulations under paragraph 33(1) of Schedule 7B to the 1988 Act.
Billing authority
Column 1
Growth baseline amount
Column 2
(£)
Tees Valley
Darlington
33,215,036
Hartlepool
33,929,304
Middlesbrough
42,103,787
Stockton-on-Tees
87,063,006
Redcar and Cleveland
39,347,040
West Midlands
Birmingham
429,198,815
Coventry
123,425,084
Dudley
97,918,262
Sandwell
101,733,562
Solihull
123,660,405
Walsall
65,738,850
Wolverhampton
76,731,439

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/452/schedule/2C/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-rates-retention-regulations-2013/schedule-2C/paragraph-1
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