The Business Improvement Districts (Property Owners) (England) Regulations 2014

has the meaning given in regulation 19;

means proposals in relation to the alteration of BRS-BID arrangements pursuant to regulation 19;

has the meaning given in regulation 7;

means marks— (a) appearing on the ballot paper and containing in an encoded form information relating to a voter and a ballot;

means any period for which BRS-BID levy is imposed which is specified in accordance with paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 2 to the 2009 Act;

means the notice required to be served under paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 4;

means a communication transmitted (whether from one person to another, from one device to another or from a person to a device or vice versa)— (a) by means of an electronic communications service (within the meaning of the Communications Act 2003);

means the geographical area of the business improvement district in respect of which the BRS-BID arrangements are proposed or made;

means anything which is or is treated as being a hereditament by virtue of the provisions of or any provisions made under section 64 of the 1988 Act including any hereditament to which regulation 6 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1989 applies but otherwise excluding any hereditament to which regulations made under section 64(3)(b) of the 1988 Act apply;

means in a form which ensures that the information is capable of being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose;

has the meaning given in regulation 22;

has the meaning given in regulation 10 of the 1989 Regulations;

means, where the relevant billing authority or a company under the control of the authority (within the meaning given in section 68 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989) is responsible for implementing the BRS-BID arrangements, that person;

means—

has the meaning given in regulation 9;

means a BRS-BID ballot, renewal ballot, or alteration ballot, as the case may be, which is required to be arranged pursuant to regulation 11(10);

means a billing authority the whole or part of whose area falls within the geographical area of the BID;”

has the same meaning as paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 2 to the 2009 Act;

means a ballot under section 54(2) of the 2003 Act;

means proposals in relation to the renewal of the BRS-BID arrangements under section 54(2) of the 2003 Act;

means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

means the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 1989 as modified by paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 below;

means the Business Rate Supplements Act 2009;

means the day determined by the ballot holder, in accordance with Schedule 2, as the day by which ballot papers must be returned to him;

means the procedure in Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (taking control of goods and selling them to recover a sum of money).

means a veto by the relevant billing authority pursuant to paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 2 to the 2009 Act;

means a notice given by a billing authority pursuant to section 51(4) of the 2003 Act;

has the meaning given in regulation 13;

means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or any day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.