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The Council Tax Limitation (England) (Maximum Amounts) Order 1995


Published: 1995-06-15

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Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 1545

COUNCIL TAX, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Council Tax Limitation (England) (Maximum Amounts) Order 1995

Made
15th June 1995

Coming into force in accordance with article 1
Whereas the Secretary of State for the Environment has, pursuant to subsection (1) of section 54 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1), designated each of the authorities listed in the Schedule to this Order as regards the financial year beginning in 1995;
And whereas the Secretary of State has notified each of those authorities in writing pursuant to section 56(1) of that Act of his decision so to designate it, the principles determined under section 54(2) of that Act in relation to it, and the amount which he proposed should be the maximum for the amount calculated by it as its budget requirement for that year;
And whereas each of the authorities listed in the Schedule to this Order has informed the Secretary of State by notice in writing under section 56(4)(a) of that Act that, for the reasons stated in the notice, it believes the maximum amount stated under section 56(1)(c) of that Act should be such as is stated in its notice;
And whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before and approved by resolution of the House of Commons;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, after considering all such information as he thinks is relevant, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 57(2) and (6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Title and Commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Council Tax Limitation (England) (Maximum Amounts) Order 1995 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Maximum Amounts

2.  The amount which the amount calculated by an authority listed in the Schedule to this Order as its budget requirement for the financial year beginning in 1995 is not to exceed is the amount shown against the name of the authority in the Schedule, which amount does not in the case of any such authority exceed the amount already calculated by the authority as its budget requirement for that year.

John Selwyn Gummer
Secretary of State for the Environment
15th June 1995

Article 2

SCHEDULEMAXIMUM AMOUNTS

The Council of the County of Devon
£592,046,000

The Council of the County of Gloucestershire
£300,714,000

The Council of the County of Shropshire
£239,364,000

The Council of the County of Somerset
£264,920,000

Lincolnshire Police Authority
£60,398,527

The Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley
£152,626,000

The Council of the City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
£233,991,000

The Council of the City of Sheffield
£392,763,000

The Council of the City of Norwich
£16,378,000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order states the amount which the amount calculated by each of the councils named in the Schedule as its budget requirement for the financial year beginning in 1995 is not to exceed.

(1)
1992 c. 14; section 54(3)(f) was substituted by section 27(2) of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).