Part 13: General Schedule 12: Infrastructure Levy Part 10A, Section 204B: The charge Effect
Subsection (1) mandates that a charging authority must, in accordance with IL regulations, charge IL in respect of development in its area.
	Subsections (2)-(5) then define which authorities are charging authorities. Subsection (2) provides that the charging authority for an area will be the LPA. LPA is given the meaning in new section 15LH PCPA 2004. Subsection (3) clarifies that the Council of the Isles of Scilly (a sui generis local authority) is the only charging authority for the Isles of Scilly, and that the Homes and Communities Agency will only become the charging authority for an area if and to the extent designated in a designation order under section 13 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (see also section 138 (Power to designate the Homes and Communities Agency as a charging authority).
	Subsection (4) provides a regulation-making power to depart from subsections (2) and (3) and provide for other entities in England to be charging authorities instead. These could be county councils, district councils, metropolitan district councils and London borough councils (within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990).
	Subsection (5) states that the meaning of "local planning authority" is that given by section 15LH of the PCPA 2004. Under new section 15LF PCPA 2004, a development corporation may become the local planning authority for an area for some or all purposes of Part 2 PCPA 2004, in place of the authority that would otherwise be the local planning authority for that area and those purposes. Subsection (5) provides that a development corporation is only a charging authority for the purposes of IL if it is the local planning authority for the whole of its area and for all purposes of Part 2 PCPA 2004.
	Subsection (6) provides a regulation-making power to allow transitional provision to be made relating to any person or body becoming or ceasing to be a charging authority.
Example (1): An authority other than those defined may be the charging authority instead
A National Park authority may comprise two areas, one that is large, and a separate one that is very small and is encircled by the area of another district council. The National Park authority is an LPA for the purposes of Part 2 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and is therefore the charging authority by operation of s.204B(2) and (5), but for reasons of scale and efficiency, it might not be appropriate for them to be the charging authority for the small separate area, in which case provision could be made under s.204B(4) for the surrounding district council to be the charging authority.