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| Business Rate Supplements Bill
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| | Amendment 20 proposed, in page 15, line 20, at end insert ‘, and where it does so it— |
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| | (i) | must direct the levying authority to refund the sums received by |
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| | it in respect of the BRS or, where the levying authority is not a |
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| | billing authority, direct it to return to a billing authority that is a |
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| | lower-tier authority in relation to sums transferred to it by the |
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| | (ii) | must direct a billing authority that is a lower-tier authority in |
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| | relation to the levying authority to refund the sums collected by |
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| | it in respect of the BRS but not transferred to the levying |
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| | (iii) | must direct a functional body to transfer to the levying authority |
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| | sums received by the body in respect of the BRS but not used by |
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| | it, and’.—(Dan Rogerson.) |
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| Clause 24, page 15, line 21, leave out paragraphs (b) to (d). |
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| Clause 25, page 16, line 10, leave out ‘or 45’. |
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| | Clauses 26 and 27 Agreed to. |
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| Clause 28, page 17, line 42, leave out subsection (3). |
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| Clause 29, page 18, line 21, leave out paragraph (b). |
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| Clause 29, page 18, line 44, leave out paragraph (b). |
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| Clause 30, page 19, line 6, leave out paragraph (b). |
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| | Clauses 31 and 32 Agreed to. |
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| | BIDs: supplementary provisions |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The 2003 Act is amended as follows. |
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| | (2) | After section 41 insert— |
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| | “41A | Additional arrangements where business rate supplement imposed |
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| | (1) | In any business improvement district where a business rate supplement |
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| | under the Business Rate Supplements Act 2009 has been imposed, a |
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| | property owner BID levy may be imposed on the owners of non-domestic |
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| | property, or a class of such owners, in the district. |
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| | (2) | A non-domestic ratepayer who is liable to pay the BID levy on a |
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| | hereditament is not liable for a property owner BID levy on that |
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| | heriditament, and may not take part in a property owner ballot in respect |
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| | (3) | In section 46(1) (description of non-domestic ratepayers liable for BID levy to be |
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| | specified) insert at end “, and, where applicable, the description of property |
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| | owners who are to be liable. |
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| | (4) | In section 49 (BID proposals) after subsection (2) insert— |
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| | “(3) | A levy on property owners may come into force only where it is approved |
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| | by a ballot of the property owners in the proposed business improvement |
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| | district who are liable for the proposed property owner BID levy.” |
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| | (5) | In section 50 (approval in ballot) after subsection (6) insert— |
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| | “(7) | A property owner BID levy is not to be regarded as approved by a ballot |
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| | held for the purposes of section 49(3) unless the two conditions set out in |
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| | subsections (2) to (6) are satisfied.” |
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| | (6) | In section 55(2) (regulations about ballots)— |
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| | (a) | in paragraph (b) after “ ratepayers” insert “and property owners”, and |
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| | (b) | after paragraph (h) insert— |
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| | “(i) | enabling the billing authority to construct a list of all |
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| | property owners in the BID area for the purposes of |
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| | holding a property owner ballot and billing.”’. |
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