The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/3031
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and Commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.

Section 2 Amendment of the 1992 Regulations

Schedules 1 and 2 to the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992 are amended as follows.

Section 3 Rules for calculation of contributions

In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1998, in Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 1(4), for “1997” there is substituted “1998”;

(b) in paragraph 4(4), for “1997 is £77,751,000” there is substituted “1998 is £78,606,000”;

(c) for the Table in Part II there is substituted—

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Section 4 Deductions from gross amount: county schools

(1) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, after sub-paragraph (1), there is inserted—

(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above there shall be ignored any determination in so far as it is made in respect of the occupation of a hereditament for the purposes of a county school (within the meaning of section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996).

(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a determination in so far as it is made in respect of a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998.

(3) Where in relation to a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998 a billing authority has decided that section 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 is to apply as regards a hereditament occupied for the purposes of a county school, regulation 2 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Discretionary Relief) Regulations 1989 shall have effect as respects notice given on any day before 1st April 1998 in relation to such a hereditament, in so far as it is occupied for the purposes of such a school, as if paragraph (3) of that regulation were omitted.

(4) In this regulation “county school” has the meaning given by section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996.

Section 5 Assumptions relating to provisional amounts

In relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 1998, in Schedule 2—

(a) in paragraph 2(12), for “0.962” there is substituted “0.951”;

(b) for the table in paragraph 8(1) there is substituted the following—