Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 68

The Relevant Population (England) Regulations 1990

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1990 No. 68

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
FINANCE

The Relevant Population (England) Regulations 1990

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 140(4), 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Finance Act 1988^[1], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Relevant Population (England) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 24th January 1990. They apply to England only.

Interpretation
    2.—(1)  In these Regulations—
"the Act" means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;
"boundary changes order" means an order under section 51(2) of the Local Government Act 1972^[2];
"charging authority" means an English charging authority;
"register" means community charges register;
"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 of the Act;
"the Population Report" means the Population Report (England) made by the Secretary of State for the Environment on 20th December 1989 under paragraph 2 of Schedule 12A to the Act;
"the relevant day" means the day on which the calculation referred to in regulation 3(1) of these Regulations is made;
"the relevant part" means the part of the authority's area of which the relevant population is being calculated;
"the year" means the chargeable financial year for which a precept is to be issued under section 68^[3] of the Act;
"the preceding year" means the financial year immediately preceding the year.


    (2)  References in these Regulations to any provision of the Distribution Report or the Population Report ("the first reports") shall be treated as including references to any equivalent provision of any subsequent report made by the Secretary of State under section 80 or paragraph 2 of Schedule 12A to the Act and approved by the House of Commons under section 81 of or paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the Act; and references in these Regulations to anything done or used for the purposes of the first reports shall be construed accordingly.

Relevant population of charging authorities' areas
    3.—(1)  Where the relevant population of part of a charging authority's area for a chargeable financial year needs to be found for the purposes of section 69 of the Act^[4], the authority shall calculate the relevant population of that part by applying the appropriate formula found in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations.

    (2)  Where the result of a calculation pursuant to paragraph (1) includes a fraction of less than 0.5 the result shall be rounded downwards to the nearest whole number; and if it includes a fraction of 0.5 or more, rounded upwards to the nearest whole number.

Chris Patten

Secretary of State for the Environment

22nd January 1990

[1] 1988 c. 41; Schedule 12A was inserted by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 74. back

[2] 1972 c. 70. back

[3] Section 68 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 49. back

[4] Section 69 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 50. back

Explanatory Note