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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Thursday 22 January 2009

 

Public Bill Committee


 

Business Rate Supplements Bill

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

22

 

Clause  2,  page  1,  leave out lines 17 to 20.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

23

 

Clause  2,  page  2,  leave out lines 1 to 5.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

24

 

Clause  3,  page  2,  leave out lines 44 and 45.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 January 2009                  

20

 

Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

25

 

Clause  4,  page  3,  line  21,  leave out from beginning to second ‘ballot’ and insert ‘a’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

26

 

Clause  6,  page  4,  line  21,  leave out ‘think’ and insert ‘consider’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

27

 

Clause  7,  page  5,  line  8,  at end add—

 

‘(6)    

This section does not apply to the Crossrail project promoted by the Greater

 

London Authority.’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

28

 

Clause  10,  page  6,  line  12,  leave out from beginning to second ‘a’ in line 13.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

29

 

Clause  10,  page  6,  line  46,  leave out from ‘BRS’ to end of line 13 on page 7.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

30

 

Clause  16,  page  11,  line  37,  leave out subsection (1) and insert—


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 January 2009                  

21

 

Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

‘(1)    

Where a person is, by reference to a hereditament, liable for BID levy in respect

 

of all or part of a financial year in respect of which the person is, in relation to that

 

hereditament, subject to a BRS imposed by the authority, the chargeable amount

 

payable in relation to the BRS shall be offset in accordance with subsection (2).’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

31

 

Clause  16,  page  11,  line  43,  leave out ‘to the extent specified in the rules’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

32

 

Clause  16,  page  12,  line  4,  leave out ‘subsection (4).

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

33

 

Clause  16,  page  12,  line  9,  at end add—

 

‘(5)    

This section does not apply to the Crossrail project’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

34

 

Clause  24,  page  15,  line  8,  leave out ‘thinks’ and insert ‘considers’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

35

 

Schedule  1,  page  22,  line  16,  at end insert—

 

‘119      

A description of the arrangement by which persons paying the BRS shall be

 

represented upon the governing body of any organisation set up for the purpose

 

of delivering the objectives of the BRS, or if, such organisation is not to be set

 

up, how such persons are to be involved in the oversight of the delivery of

 

those objectives.’.


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 January 2009                  

22

 

Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

36

 

Schedule  1,  page  22,  line  36,  leave out sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) and insert ‘the

 

arrangements for the ballot’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

37

 

Schedule  1,  page  22,  line  39,  leave out paragraphs (a) and (b) and insert ‘the result

 

of the ballot’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

38

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  29,  leave out subsection (2).

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

39

 

Clause  5,  page  3,  line  36,  leave out subsection (4).

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

40

 

Clause  28,  page  17,  line  42,  leave out subsection (3).

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

41

 

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  21,  leave out paragraph (b).


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 January 2009                  

23

 

Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

42

 

Clause  29,  page  18,  line  44,  leave out paragraph (b).

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

43

 

Clause  30,  page  19,  line  6,  leave out paragraph (b).

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

44

 

Schedule  2,  page  23,  line  26,  leave out sub-paragraph (3).

 

BIDs: supplementary provisions

 

Mr Nick Raynsford

 

NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The 2003 Act is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

After section 41 insert—

 

“41A  

Additional arrangements where business rate supplement imposed

 

(1)    

In any business improvement district where a business rate supplement

 

under the Business Rate Supplements Act 2009 has been imposed, a

 

property owner BID levy may be imposed on the owners of non-domestic

 

property, or a class of such owners, in the district.

 

(2)    

A non-domestic ratepayer who is liable to pay the BID levy on a

 

hereditament is not liable for a property owner BID levy on that

 

heriditament, and may not take part in a property owner ballot in respect

 

of that hereditament.”

 

(3)    

In section 46(1) (description of non-domestic ratepayers liable for BID levy to be

 

specified) insert at end “, and, where applicable, the description of property

 

owners who are to be liable.

 

(4)    

In section 49 (BID proposals) after subsection (2) insert—

 

“(3)    

A levy on property owners may come into force only where it is approved

 

by a ballot of the property owners in the proposed business improvement

 

district who are liable for the proposed property owner BID levy.”

 

(5)    

In section 50 (approval in ballot) after subsection (6) insert—


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 22 January 2009                  

24

 

Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

“(7)    

A property owner BID levy is not to be regarded as approved by a ballot

 

held for the purposes of section 49(3) unless the two conditions set out in

 

subsections (2) to (6) are satisfied.”

 

(6)    

In section 55(2) (regulations about ballots)—

 

(a)    

in paragraph (b) after “ ratepayers” insert “and property owners”, and

 

(b)    

after paragraph (h) insert—

 

“(i)    

enabling the billing authority to construct a list of all

 

property owners in the BID area for the purposes of

 

holding a property owner ballot and billing.”’.

 

Mr Nick Raynsford

 

45

 

Title,  line  3,  after ‘development;’, insert ‘to make provision about business improvement

 

districts in consequence of the imposition if a business rate supplement;’.

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

46

 

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  10,  at end insert ‘, and

 

(c)    

which promotes the economic well-being of its area, including the

 

provision of transport infrastructure and the promotion of employment

 

and employment skills, investment, regeneration, business efficiency and

 

competitiveness.’.

 


 
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