The General Drainage Charges (Relevant Quotient) Regulations 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/165
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the General Drainage Charges (Relevant Quotient) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 2nd February 1993.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

“the 1976 Act ” means the Land Drainage Act 1976 ;

“the 1991 Act ” means the Water Resources Act 1991;

“council tax base” means the aggregate amount of council tax base for the areas or parts of areas in the district determined according to regulation 6 of the National Rivers Authority (Levies) Regulations 1993 ;

“district” means a local flood defence district wholly or mainly in England created by a scheme under section 12 of the 1991 Act or which is treated as such by virtue of section 134(3) of that Act or continues to be so treated under paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 2 to the Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 ;

“drainage charge” means a charge raised pursuant to section 134 of the 1991 Act;

“financial year” means a period of 12 months beginning with 1st April;

“the NRA ” means the National Rivers Authority continued in being by section 1 of the 1991 Act.

Section 3 Determination of relevant quotient

The determination of the relevant quotient for the purposes of section 135 of the 1991 Act shall be made by application of the following formula:

where—

A means the aggregate amount demanded by the precepts issued in respect of the district under section 46(3) of the 1976 Act in respect of the financial year beginning in 1989;

B means the aggregate amount of the estimated penny rate products on the basis of which the amount A was apportioned in pursuance of section 46(1) of the 1976 Act in respect of that financial year;

C means the amount ascertained by dividing the amount A by the council tax base of the district for the financial year beginning in 1993;

D means the aggregate amount of the levies issued by the NRA in respect of the district under the National Rivers Authority (Levies) Regulations 1993 for the financial year in respect of which the drainage charge in question is raised; and

E means the council tax base of the district for the financial year in respect of which that charge is raised.