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House of Commons

 
 

Tuesday 3 February 2009

 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

 

Business Rate Supplements Bill


 

[Seventh Sitting]


 

Clause 24.

 

Amendment 20 proposed, in page 15, line 20, at end insert ‘, and where it does so it—

 

(i)    

must direct the levying authority to refund the sums received by

 

it in respect of the BRS or, where the levying authority is not a

 

billing authority, direct it to return to a billing authority that is a

 

lower-tier authority in relation to sums transferred to it by the

 

billing authority,

 

(ii)    

must direct a billing authority that is a lower-tier authority in

 

relation to the levying authority to refund the sums collected by

 

it in respect of the BRS but not transferred to the levying

 

authority, and

 

(iii)    

must direct a functional body to transfer to the levying authority

 

sums received by the body in respect of the BRS but not used by

 

it, and’.—(Dan Rogerson.)

 

 

Withdrawn

 

Dan Rogerson

 

Lorely Burt

 

Not called  21

 

Clause  24,  page  15,  line  21,  leave out paragraphs (b) to (d).

 

Clause Agreed to.

 


 

Dan Rogerson

 

Not selected  56

 

Clause  25,  page  16,  line  10,  leave out ‘or 45’.

 

Clause Agreed to.


 
 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 3 February 2009        

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Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

Clauses 26 and 27 Agreed to.

 


 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

Not called  40

 

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

 

Clause Agreed to.

 


 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

Not called  41

 

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

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

Not called  42

 

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

 

Clause Agreed to.

 


 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Philip Dunne

 

Mr Brian Binley

 

Mr Mark Field

 

Mr Lee Scott

 

 

Not called  43

 

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

 

Clause Agreed to.


 
 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 3 February 2009        

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Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

Clauses 31 and 32 Agreed to.

 


 

New Clause

 

BIDs: supplementary provisions

 

Mr Nick Raynsford

 

Not called  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—

 

“(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.”’.

 



 
 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 3 February 2009        

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Business Rate Supplements Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Nick Raynsford

 

Not called  45

 

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

 

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

 


 

John Healey

 

That certain written evidence already reported to the House be appended to the

 

proceedings of the Committee. 

 

                                                               Agreed to

 

 

Bill to be reported, without Amendment.

 


 
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