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RATING AND VALUATION
Made
5th February 1991
Laid before Parliament
7th February 1991
Coming into force
28th February 1991
The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 7 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the City of London (Non-Domestic Rating Multiplier) Order 1991, and shall come into force on 28th February 1991.
2. In this Order-
"the Act" means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;
"the Distribution Report" means the Revenue Support Grant Distribution Report (England) made by the Secretary of State for the Environment on 20th December 1989 under section 80(1) of the Act as amended by the Revenue Support Grant Distribution (Amendment) Report (England) made by the Secretary of State for the Environment on 16th January 1991 under section 80(5)(b) of the Act.
3. The required minimum for the Common Council's non-domestic rating multiplier for the chargeable financial year beginning in 1991 is the figure equal to 95.672 per cent of the non-domestic rating multiplier specified for the year in accordance with Part I of Schedule 7 to the Act.
4.-(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the required maximum for the Common Council's non-domestic rating multiplier for the chargeable financial year beginning in 1991 is the figure calculated in accordance with the formula
where-
A is the required minimum for the Common Council's non-domestic rating multiplier calculated for the year in accordance with article 3 of this Order,
B is 99 per cent of the amount, if any, by which, at the time of the calculation of the required maximum, the amount calculated by the Common Council under section 95(4) of the Act(2) for the year exceeds the standard spending assessment calculated for the Council for the year in accordance with the provisions of the Distribution Report, and
C is the total of the rateable values shown in the Common Council's local non-domestic rating list for 31st December 1990, multiplied by 0.894.
(2) In calculating the required maximum under paragraph (1), a part of a whole (if any) shall be calculated to three decimal places only-
(a)adding one thousandth where (apart from this paragraph) there would be more than five ten-thousandths, and
(b)ignoring the ten-thousandths where (apart from this paragraph) there would be five, or less than five, ten-thousandths,
provided that if the resulting figure is equal to or less than the required minimum for the year, the required maximum shall be calculated by adding one thousandth to the resulting figure.
Michael Heseltine
Secretary of State for the Environment
5th February 1991
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes provision as to the calculation of the required minimum and maximum within which the Common Council of the City of London must set its non-domestic rating multiplier for the financial year beginning in 1991. (The Common Council is the only charging authority which meets the definition of "special authority" set out in section 144(6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.)
1988 c. 41; Schedule 7 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 39.
Section 95 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, Schedule 5, paragraph 63.
