Clause 21
Business Rate Supplements Bill
9:45 am

Sadiq Khan (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Community Cohension and Fire and Rescue Service), Department for Communities and Local Government; Tooting, Labour)

The clause makes provisions for regulations to be made setting out the collection and enforcement arrangements for BRS. My right hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government has set out how the Government intend to make use of these provisions in the statement of intent. Subsection (1) enables regulations to be made for the collection and enforcement of supplements. Subsection (2) provides for the preparation of stand-alone regulations relating specifically to the collection and enforcement of supplements, and also for the existing regulations governing the collection and enforcement of non-domestic rates to be amended so that they apply to supplements. Subsection (4) confers a power to make regulations to address the collection and enforcement of supplements where projects are abandoned. Subsection (3) is not a regulation-making power; it gives the billing authorities a power to collect and enforce payment of supplements once they have come to an end. That is required to ensure that billing authorities can collect the supplement from those ratepayers who have outstanding liability.