Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Alteration of Requisite Calculations) (England) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 7th February 2004.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004 and in relation to authorities in England only ( 3 ).

(3) In these Regulations—

“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

“the 1999 Act” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Budget requirement (billing authorities) – calculation

2. Section 32 of the 1992 Act has effect as if—

(a) in subsection (2)(a) the words “, other than any expenditure it estimates will be charged to a BID Revenue Account for the year (excluding expenditure incurred by the authority in making a financial contribution or taking action under section 43(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 2003( 4 )”were added at the end of that subsection;

(b) in subsection (3)(a)( 5 ) the words—

(i) “BID levy or financial contribution made by a person under section 43(2)(b) or (c) of the Local Government Act 2003,” were inserted after the words “redistributed non-domestic rates,”;

(ii) “or relevant special grant” were omitted; and

(c) for subsection (12)( 6 ) there were substituted the following subsection—

“ (12) In this section and in section 33 below “police grant” means the grant payable in accordance with paragraph 3.1 of the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2004/05 approved by a resolution of the House of Commons pursuant to section 46 of the Police Act 1996 ( 7 ) on 5th February 2004. ” ;

(d) there were added after subsection (12)—

“ (13) In this section “BID levy” and “BID Revenue Account” shall bear the meaning given in Part 4 of the Local Government Act 2003. ” .

Basic amount of council tax (billing authorities) – calculation

3. Section 33(1) of the 1992 Act( 8 ) has effect as if the words “or relevant special grant” in item P were omitted.

Budget requirement (major precepting authorities other than the Greater London Authority) – calculation

4. Section 43 of the 1992 Act has effect as if—

(a) in subsection (3)(a)(i)( 9 ) the words “relevant special grant” were omitted;

(b) for subsection (6A)( 10 ), there were substituted the following subsection —

“ (6A) In this section and section 44 below, “police grant” has the meaning given by section 32(12) above. ” .

Basic amount of council tax (major precepting authorities other than the Greater London Authority) – calculation

5. Section 44(1) of the 1992 Act( 11 ) has effect as if the words “relevant special grant” in item P were omitted.

Budget requirement (Greater London Authority) – calculation

6. Section 85(5)(a)(i) of the 1999 Act( 12 ) has effect as if the words “relevant special grant” were omitted.

Basic amount of council tax (Greater London Authority) – calculation

7. Section 88 of the 1999 Act( 13 ) has effect as if —

(a) in subsection (2) in item P1 paragraph (e) were omitted;

(b) in subsection (4) paragraph (d) were omitted.

Additional calculation: special item for part of Greater London

8. Section 89 of the 1999 Act( 14 ) has effect as if —

(a) in subsection (4) in item P2 paragraph (f) were omitted;

(b) in subsection (6) paragraph (e) were omitted.

Interpretation of Chapter I of Part 3 of the 1999 Act

9. Section 99 of the 1999 Act( 15 ) has effect as if the definition of “relevant special grant” were omitted.

Distribution of grants by the Greater London Authority

10. Section 102 of the 1999 Act( 16 ) has effect as if —

(a) in subsection (2) paragraph (c) were omitted;

(b) subsection (8) were omitted.