Section 48 and Schedule 18: Powers to act for the protection of public health: Northern Ireland Section 79: Extension of BID arrangements: England
This section establishes the delay of Business Improvement District ("BID") ballots through an extension of maximum duration of English BID arrangements, for those BID arrangements that are in place on the day of Royal Assent but are due to terminate on or before 31st December 2020. Those BIDs’ arrangements will be extended until 31st March 2021.
	Subsection (1) sets out which BID arrangements are included within the delay:
if a BID is in force on the day on which the Bill (now Act) received Royal Assent; and
the BID arrangements are due to expire between the date the Coronavirus Bill obtained Royal Assent (25th March 2020) and the 31st December 2020.
	Subsection (2) sets out the BIDs that are excluded from the delay:
if a new BID ballot under section 49(1) of the Local Government Act 2003 (the "LGA 2003") has taken place before the Bill (now Act) received Royal Assent (25th March 2020), and the BID arrangements are the same or substantially the same as the current arrangements in force; or
a renewal ballot under section 54(2) of the LGA 2003 for the renewal of the current BID arrangements has taken place before the Bill (now Act) received Royal Assent (25th March 2020).
	Subsection (3) sets out how the extension to the BID arrangements for BIDs included within the delay will work in practice:
that the BID arrangements will now end on 31st March 2021, rather than at the previous five-year maximum which would have ended between the day of Royal Assent and 31st December 2020;
that the extension beyond the previous-five year maximum will be treated as a new charging period (defined as the 2021 charging period) ending on 31st March 2021.
sets out in greater detail how the levy for the 2021 chargeable period created by the extension will work:
the 2021 chargeable period created by the extension will be calculated in the same manner as the 2020 chargeable period; and
the levy will be applied in a way that is just and reasonable, in the case where the 2021 chargeable period is longer or shorter than the last 2020 chargeable period.
Sets out that the non-domestic ratepayers specified in the arrangements (or hereditaments) liable for the levy will be the same as the last 2020 chargeable period.
	Subsection (4) defines ‘the last 2020 chargeable period’ as the chargeable period that would have been the last chargeable period for the BID that was due to end in 2020 had it not been extended beyond the five-year maximum by this legislation.
	Subsection (5) disapplies the five-year maximum rule for BID arrangements set out in section 54(1) of the LGA 2003 for the BID arrangements included within the extension for this legislation.
	Subsection (6) highlights that the termination and alteration procedures for BID arrangements set out in section 54(4) of the LGA 2003 continue to apply and BID arrangements included within the extension can still utilise those procedures if necessary.
	Subsection (7) highlights that expressions included within this legislation retain the same legal meaning as those in Part 4 of the LGA 2003.
	Subsection (8) binds the Crown.
	Subsection (9) highlights that the legislation only applies to BID arrangements within England, and not within Wales, as the Welsh Government did not wish to be included within the extension as no Welsh BID arrangements are due to end within the period between the day of Royal Assent and the 31st December 2020.
	The territorial extent of this section is England and Wales only and applies to England only.