Local Government Finance Act 1988
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
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Section 76 — Interpretation.
Interpretation. 76 1 This section applies for the purposes of this Part. 2 A receiving authority is any billing authority or major precepting authority. 4 A specified body is any body which provides…
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Section 77A — Application of Chapter 2
Application of Chapter 2 77A This Chapter applies only in relation to England.
Section 78 — Revenue support grant.
Revenue support grant. 78 1 The Secretary of State may pay a grant (to be called revenue support grant) in accordance with this Chapter for a chargeable financial year— a to receiving authorities, b…
Section 78A — Requirement to specify determination in local government finance report .
Requirement to specify determination in local government finance report . 78A 1 A determination under section 78 above shall be specified in the local government finance report for the year (as to…
Section 79 — Effect of report’s approval.
Effect of report’s approval. 79 1 This section applies where in accordance with sections 78 and 78A above a determination as regards revenue support grant has been made for a financial year and…
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Section 82 — Calculation of sums payable.
Calculation of sums payable. 82 A1 This section applies if— a in accordance with sections 78 and 78A above a determination as regards revenue support grant has been made for a financial year and…
Section 83 — Payment of sums.
Payment of sums. 83 1 Where a calculation is made under section 82(1) above the Secretary of State shall pay to each receiving authority any sum calculated as falling to be paid to it. 2 The sum…
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Section 84A — Amending reports.
Amending reports. 84A 1 Subject to subsection (6) below, after a local government finance report that contains a determination under section 78 above has been made the Secretary of State may, at any…
Section 84B — Calculation of sums payable under amending reports.
Calculation of sums payable under amending reports. 84B 1 As soon as is reasonably practicable after an amending report made under section 84A above has been approved by resolution of the House of…
Section 84C — Payment of sums under amending reports.
Payment of sums under amending reports. 84C 1 This section applies where a calculation (the relevant calculation) is made under section 84B(1) or (2) above in relation to an amending report. 2 Where…
Section 84D — Application of Chapter 3
Application of Chapter 3 84D This Chapter applies only in relation to Wales.
Section 84E — Revenue support grant: Wales
Revenue support grant: Wales 84E 1 The Welsh Ministers shall pay a grant for each financial year to— a receiving authorities, and b specified bodies. 2 Grant under this section shall be known as…
Section 84F — Determination of grant
Determination of grant 84F 1 The Welsh Ministers shall for each financial year make— a a determination under subsection (2), or b a determination under each of subsections (3) and (4). 2 A…
Section 84G — Local government finance reports
Local government finance reports 84G 1 The Welsh Ministers shall specify a determination under section 84F in a report, to be called a local government finance report. 2 A local government finance…
Section 84H — Effect of report’s approval
Effect of report’s approval 84H 1 This section applies where in accordance with sections 84F and 84G a determination as regards revenue support grant has been made for a financial year and specified…
Section 84J — calculation of grant payable to receiving authorities
calculation of grant payable to receiving authorities 84J 1 As soon as is reasonably practicable after a local government finance report for a financial year has been approved by resolution of the…
Section 84K — Payment of grant to receiving authorities
Payment of grant to receiving authorities 84K 1 The Welsh Ministers shall pay any sum calculated under section 84J(1) as falling to be paid by way of revenue support grant to a receiving authority in…
Section 84L — Amending reports
Amending reports 84L 1 Where the Welsh Ministers have made a local government finance report for a particular financial year, the Welsh Ministers may, at any time before the end of the financial year…
Section 84M — Recalculation of grant following amending report
Recalculation of grant following amending report 84M 1 This section applies where the Assembly, by resolution, approves a report made under section 84L (“the amending report”) relating to a local…
Section 84N — Payment of grant following amending report
Payment of grant following amending report 84N 1 Where the Welsh Ministers make a calculation under section 84M(2) or by virtue of section 84M(4) that shows an increase in the sum that falls to be…
Section 84P — Information deadlines
Information deadlines 84P 1 The Welsh Ministers may set a deadline for the receipt of information to be taken into account by them when making a calculation — a under section 84J(1) or by virtue of…
Section 84Q — Application of this Chapter etc
Application of this Chapter etc 84Q 1 The provisions of this Chapter apply as follows— a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b sections 86A and 86B apply only in relation…
Section 85 — Additional grant.
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Section 86 — Effect of report’s approval.
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Section 86A — Additional grant: Wales
Additional grant: Wales 86A 1 This section applies where a local government finance report for a chargeable financial year has been approved by the Assembly and, before the year ends, the Welsh…
Section 86B — Effect of additional grant report’s approval: Wales
Effect of additional grant report’s approval: Wales 86B 1 This section applies where in accordance with section 86A a determination as regards additional grant has been made for a financial year and…
Section 87 — Transport grants.
Transport grants. 87 1 The Secretary of State shall pay to a defined council a grant for a chargeable financial year if he accepts that at least some of its estimated relevant transport expenditure…
Section 88 — Transport grants: supplementary.
Transport grants: supplementary. 88 1 This section applies for the purposes of section 87 above. 2 Each of the following is a defined council— a a county council, aa a county borough council, and b a…
Section 88A — Council tax grants.
Council tax grants. 88A 1 If regulations under section 13 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (reduced amounts of tax) have effect as regards a financial year the Secretary of State may, with…
Section 88B — Special grants.
Special grants. 88B 1 The Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, pay a grant (in this section referred to as a special grant) in accordance with this section to a relevant…
Section 88C — Special grants: Wales
Special grants: Wales 88C 1 The Welsh Ministers may pay a grant (in this section referred to as a special grant) in accordance with this section to a receiving authority in Wales. 2 Where the Welsh…
Section 89 — Collection funds.
Collection funds. 89 1 Every billing authority shall establish, and then maintain, a fund (to be called its collection fund) in accordance with this Part. 2 Subject to subsections (2A) to (2C) below,…
Section 89A — Principal councils in Wales.
Principal councils in Wales. 89A This Part does not apply to a Welsh county council or county borough council (for whom provision as to the establishment of a council fund is made by section 38 of…
Section 90 — Payments to and from collection funds.
Payments to and from collection funds. 90 1 The following shall be paid into the collection fund of a billing authority— a sums received by the authority in respect of council tax set by it in…
Section 91 — General funds.
General funds. 91 1 For the purposes of this section each of the following is a relevant authority— a a district council, aa a county council to which have been transferred, by or in consequence of…
Section 92 — General funds: supplementary.
General funds: supplementary. 92 1 In this section “ relevant authority ” has the same meaning as in section 91 above. 2 The Secretary of State may make regulations— a about the relationship of a…
Section 93 — The City fund.
The City fund. 93 1 The Common Council shall establish, and then maintain, a fund (to be called the City fund) in accordance with this Part. 2 The City fund must be established on 1 April 1990. 3 Any…
Section 94 — The City: further provisions.
The City: further provisions. 94 1 The Secretary of State may make regulations— a about the relationship of the City fund to other funds of the Common Council; b providing for assets falling within…
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Section 97 — Principal transfers between funds.
Principal transfers between funds. 97 1 Subject to subsection (2) below, a billing authority which has made calculations in accordance with sections 31A, 31B and 34 to 36 of the Local Government…
Section 98 — Other transfers between funds.
Other transfers between funds. 98 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Regulations under section 89(5)…
Section 99 — Regulations about funds.
Regulations about funds. 99 1 The Secretary of State may make regulations about the discharge of the following liabilities of a billing authority— a the liability to pay anything from its collection…
Section 100 — Power to designate authorities.
Power to designate authorities. 100 1 As regards a chargeable financial year the Secretary of State may designate a charging authority if in his opinion— a the amount calculated by it in relation to…
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