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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-limitation-designation-of-authorities-exemption-wales-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/968",
  "legislation_title": "The Rate Limitation (Designation of Authorities) (Exemption) (Wales) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-limitation-designation-of-authorities-exemption-wales-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 2(1) of the Rates Act 1984 provides that an authority in whose case a maximum rate or precept is to be prescribed in any financial year is to be designated by the Secretary of State in the preceding financial year.\nSection 2(2)(a) of the Act, in its application to Wales, exempts an authority from designation in any financial year if its total expenditure for that financial year does not appear to the Secretary of State to be likely to exceed its grant-related expenditure, or £12.1 million, whichever is the greater.\nSection 2(3) of the Act provides that, if the total of relevant expenditure (as estimated for the purposes of the Rate Support Grant Report for each financial Year) changes from one year to the next, the Secretary of State shall substitute for the amount for the time being specified in section 2(2)(a) of the Act a proportionately greater or smaller amount, rounded to the nearest hundred thousand pounds.\nThe total of relevant expenditure for local authorities in Wales, as estimated for the purposes of the Welsh Rate Support Grant Report 1988–89, is 9.23% greater than the corresponding figure estimated for the purposes of the Welsh Rate Support Grant Report 1987–88.\nThis order, which applies to Wales only, substitutes an amount of £13.2 million for the amount of £12.1 million currently specified for Wales in section 2(2)(a) of the Act. It comes into force on 28th June 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/968/note",
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  "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."
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