Clause 16
Business Rate Supplements Bill
6:30 pm
Peter Atkinson (Hexham, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment 31, in clause 16, page 11, line 43, leave out—
‘to the extent specified in the rules’.
Amendment 32, in clause 16, page 12, line 4, leave out ‘subsection (4).
Amendment 17, in clause 16, page 12, line 8, leave out paragraphs (b) and (c).
Amendment 33, in clause 16, page 12, line 9, at end add—
‘(5) This section does not apply to the Crossrail project.’.
New clause 1—BIDs: supplementary provisions
‘(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 hereditament, 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.”’.
Amendment 45, in title, line 3, after ‘development;’, insert
‘to make provision about business improvement districts in consequence of the imposition of a business rate supplement;’.