Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
17th February 1997
Laid before Parliament
24th February 1997
Coming into force
1st April 1997
The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 49(2) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Capital Finance) (Rate of Discount for 1997/98) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
2. The percentage rate of discount prescribed for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1997 for the purposes of defining "r" in section 49(2) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 shall be 8.9 per cent.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment
David Curry
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
17th February 1997
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
17th February 1997
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Part IV of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 makes provision for the capital finance of local authorities. Section 49(2) sets out a formula for determining for the purposes of Part IV the value of the consideration falling to be given by a local authority under a credit arrangement in any financial year after the one in which the arrangement comes into being. The percentage rate of discount prescribed for a financial year is one of the factors referred to in the formula. For the financial year beginning on 1st April 1997 these Regulations prescribe 8.9 per cent. which is 0.2 per cent. less than the rate of discount prescribed for 1996/97.