The
Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention) and (Levy and Safety Net)
(Amendment) Regulations 2017
Made - - - - 29th March 2017
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
Explanatory note
These Regulations amend the Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention)
Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/452) (“the Rates Retention
Regulations”) and the Non-Domestic Rating (Levy and Safety Net)
Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/737) (“the Levy and Safety Net
Regulations) to provide for—
(a) changes to the calculation of the individual levy rate for
all local authorities to reflect the non-domestic rating
revaluation which has effect on 1 April 2017; and
(b) changes to the administration of the rates retention scheme,
including the calculation of levy and safety net payments, to
give effect to the Government’s decision to create, from 1st
April 2017, pilot areas in which authorities will retain 100% of
locally raised nondomestic rates.
The pilot areas in which authorities retain 100% of locally raised
non-domestic rates are Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region,
West Midlands, the West of England and Cornwall (“100% pilot
areas”). The amendments also increase the Greater London
Authority’s (GLA) share of nondomestic rating income; and make a
corresponding reduction in the central share.
Amendments to the Rates Retention Regulations
Regulation 3 amends regulation 3 of the Rates Retention Regulations
to require billing authorities in 100% pilot areas to estimate
amounts specified in Schedule 2 and to notify the Secretary of
State and any relevant precepting authority of those
amounts.
Regulation 4 amends regulation 4 of those Regulations to provide
that billing authorities in 100% pilot areas are not required to
make a central share payment to the Secretary of State.
Regulation 5 amends regulation 5 of those Regulations to change the
relevant precepting authority shares for the Greater London
Authority and the West of England Combined Authority.
Regulation 6 consequentially amends regulation 6 of those
Regulations to reflect the insertion of Schedule 2A by S.I.
2016/1268.
Regulation 7 amends regulation 11 of those Regulations to change
the percentage shares for Greater London.
Regulation 8 amends Schedule 2A to those Regulations to provide
that it does not apply to billing authorities in Greater Manchester
from 1st April 2017 when that becomes a 100% pilot area.
Regulation 9 consequentially amends Schedule 3 to those Regulations
to reflect the changes in percentage shares for billing authorities
in 100% pilot areas.
Regulation 10 consequentially amends Schedule 4 to those
Regulations to provide that the distribution of surpluses and
deficits in the Collection Fund reflects the changes to the central
and local shares in Greater London and in the 100% pilot areas.
Regulation 11 inserts Schedule 5 to those Regulations.
