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| | Thursday 12 February 2009 |
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| | Business Rate Supplements Bill |
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| | To move the following Clause:— |
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| | | ‘(1) | Where a levying authority imposes a BRS it shall set up a body corporate called |
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| | | the Project Delivery Board (in this Act referred to to as “the Board”) to oversee |
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| | | delivery of the project to be funded by the BRS. |
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| | | (2) | Schedule [Project Delivery Board] is about the Board.’. |
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| | To move the following Schedule:— |
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| | | 1 | A Board shall be established at the first instance of an initial prospectus being |
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| | | published for the imposition of an approved BRS. |
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| | | 2 | A Board shall exisit for the period in which the BRS is in existence. |
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| | | 3 | The members of the Board are to be appointed by the relevant levying |
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| | | authority in the following way— |
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| | | (a) | a third are to be representatives from the affected local authority; |
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| | | (b) | a third are to be representatives from the affected local business |
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| | | (c) | the remainder is to be made up of members appointed as thought |
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| | | appropriate by the relevant levying authority. |
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| | | 4 | In appointing members to the Board the levying authority must have regard to |
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| | | the desirability of securing that the Board is able to perform its functions |
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| | | effectively and efficiently. |
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| | | 5 | Where two or more levying authorities are acting jointly by virtue of a BRS the |
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| | | Board shall be established by arrangement between those levying authorities. |
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| | | 6 | The Board’s functions are to be specified by regulations. |
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| | | 7 | Regulations under paragraph 6 must be made by the Secretary of State within |
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| | | 90 days of the commencement of this Act. |
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| | | 8 | Regulations under paragraph 6 may authorise a levying authority to use a |
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| | | prescribed proportion of such sums as it collects or recovers in respect of a |
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| | | BRS to meet expenses incurred by the Board. |
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| | | 9 | Expenses incurred under paragraph 8 may not extend to a salary for any Board |
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| | Page 13, line 6, leave out Clause 19. |
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