UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
1990 No. 777
RATING AND VALUATION
The General Rate Act 1967 and Related Provisions (Savings and Consequential Provision) Regulations 1990
Made 29th March 1990
Laid before Parliament 29th March 1990
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 117(8) and 143(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
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Citation and commencementCitation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the General Rate Act 1967 and Related Provisions (Savings and Consequential Provision) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force immediately before 1st April 1990.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;
“the 1967 Act” means the General Rate Act 1967.
Savings of the 1967 Act
3.—(1) Notwithstanding section 117(1) of, and Part I of Schedule 13 to, the Act, and without prejudice to section 16(1) of the Interpretation Act 1978, the provisions of the 1967 Act, other than those mentioned in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, shall continue to have effect on and after 1st April 1990, subject to the amendments made in them by the Local Government Finance (Repeals, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 1990, for the purposes of, or for purposes connected with—
(a)
(a) any rate made, or precept issued, under the 1967 Act in respect of any period ending before 1st April 1990;
(b)
(b) any liability for rates in respect of any such period;
(c)
(c) the alteration of any valuation list in force immediately before 1st April 1990 pursuant to a proposal made before that date but to which effect had not been given immediately before that date;
(d)
(d) the adjustment of any payment made by or under any of the following enactments in respect of a period ending before 1st April 1990—
(e)
(e) article 5 of the Local Government Finance (Repeals, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 1990;
(f)
(f) section 66(4) of the East Sussex Act 1981.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prejudice the effect of any regulations made under section 117(8) of the Act before the making of these Regulations.
Other savings
4.—(1) Without prejudice to regulation 3, nothing in section 117(1) of, or Part I of Schedule 13 to, the Act shall affect the continued operation of the provisions mentioned in Schedule 2 hereto—
(a)
(a) for such purposes as are mentioned in paragraph (1) of that regulation; or
(b)
(b) for the purposes of any other matter connected with rates or precepts and relating to a period ending before 1st April 1990,
or the power of the Secretary of State to repeal, revoke or vary any such provision.
(2) Nothing in section 117(6) of, or Part I of Schedule 13 to, the Act shall apply so as to preclude the payment by the Common Council of ward expenses payable in accordance with Regulations made by that Council on 13th December 1979 under section 17 (payment of certain expenses of wards within the City of London) of the City of London (Union of Parishes) Act 1907, or the power of the Council to amend or revoke those Regulations.
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Revocation of instrumentsRevocation of instruments
5. The instruments mentioned in Schedule 3 hereto which would, apart from these Regulations, cease to have effect on 1st April 1990, are hereby revoked.
Chris Patten
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
29th March 1990
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 3(1)
EXCLUDED PROVISIONS OF THE GENERAL RATE ACT 1967
Section 3(1) to (3) and (6)
Section 4
Section 8
Section 11
Section 13
Section 17A
Section 17B
Section 19A
Section 19B
Section 20(1B)
Section 30
Section 68
Section 69, other than subsection (5)
Section 73(3)
Section 74(5)
Section 80(4)
Section 82(1)
Section 85
Paragraphs 6(1) to (3) and 8(1) of Schedule 1
Schedule 4, other than paragraph 5(2) to (6)
Schedule 5, other than paragraph 8
Schedule 6, other than paragraph 5
Schedule 7, other than paragraph 15
Schedule 10.
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 4
OTHER SAVINGS
(1) |
Enactment or instrument |
(2) |
Reference |
The provisions of the City of London (Union of Parishes) Act 1907 referred to in Part I of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, other than sections 17 and 18 |
1907 c.cx1 |
The Plant and Machinery (Rating) Order 1960 |
S.I. 1960/122, amended by S.I. 1974/ 413 |
The Valuation (Statutory Deductions) Order 1962 |
S.I. 1962/940, amended by S.I. 1965/ 97 and 1973/2139 |
Section 68(1) of the London Government Act 1963 |
1963 c. 33 |
The Isles of Scilly (General Rate) Order 1967 |
S.I. 1967/498 |
The Mixed Hereditaments (Certificate) Regulations 1967 |
S.I. 1967/637, amended by S.I. 1981/ 326 |
The Rating (Exemption of Unoccupied Property) Regulations 1967 |
S.I. 1967/954 |
Part I of the Rating Act 1971 |
1971 c. 39 |
The Valuation Lists Rules 1972 |
S.I. 1972/1612 |
The Rating of Owners Order 1972 |
S.I. 1972/1983 |
The Valuation Lists (Proposals for Alteration) Regulations 1974 |
S.I. 1974/2213 |
The Docks and Harbours (Rateable Values) Order 1976 |
S.I. 1976/535, amended by S.I. 1988/ 974 |
Article 15 of the National Coal Board (Rateable Values) Order 1977 |
S.I. 1977/2083 |
The Distress for Rates Order 1979 |
S.I. 1979/1038, amended by S.I. 1980/ 2013 and 1989/621 |
The Unoccupied Property Rate (Variation of Current Ceiling) Order 1980 |
S.I. 1980/2012 |
The Rate Product Rules 1981 |
S.I. 1981/327, amended by S.I. 1983/ 268 and 1986/1236 |
The Precepts (Rate of Interest) Rules 1982 |
S.I. 1982/1224 |
The Mines and Quarries (Valuation) Order 1983 |
S.I. 1983/547 |
The Rating (Exemptions of Unoccupied Industrial and Storage Hereditaments) Regulations 1985 |
S.I. 1985/258 |
The Rate Demands and Notice of Rates and Precepts Rules 1985 |
S.I. 1985/1486 |
The Rating (Public Gas Suppliers) Order 1986 |
S.I. 1986/1365 |
SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 5
INSTRUMENTS REVOKED
(1) |
Instrument |
(2) |
Reference |
The Rating Surcharge (Exemption) Regulations 1974 |
S.I. 1974/1563 |
The Rating Surcharge (Exemption) Regulations 1975 |
S.I. 1975/226 |
The Rating (Water Hereditaments) Order 1975 |
S.I. 1975/540 |
The Rating Surcharge (Exemption of Unused Commercial Buildings) Regulations 1975 |
S.I. 1975/1022 |
The Post Office (Rateable Values) Order 1976 |
S.I. 1976/206 |
The Post Office (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1976 |
S.I. 1976/207 |
The Natural Gas Terminals (Rateable Values) Order 1976 |
S.I. 1976/391 |
The Electricity Boards (Rateable Values) Order 1976 |
S.I. 1976/489 |
The Gas Hereditaments (Rateable Values) Order 1976 |
S.I. 1976/490 |
The Rating Surcharge (Exemption) Regulations 1976 |
S.I. 1976/982 |
The Transport Boards (Distribution of Payments for Rating Authorities) Order 1977 |
S.I. 1977/481 |
The Transport Boards (Adjustment of Payments) Order 1977 |
S.I. 1977/585 |
The Rating Surcharge (Exemption of Unused Commercial Buildings) Regulations 1977 |
S.I. 1977/1515 |
The Natural Gas Terminals (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1979 |
S.I. 1979/1373 |
The Gas Hereditaments (Rateable Values) (Amendment) Order 1979 |
S.I. 1979/1516 |
The Transport Boards (Adjustment of Payments) Order 1980 |
S.I. 1980/494 |
The Rating Surcharge (Suspension) Order 1980 |
S.I. 1980/2015 |
The Transport Boards (Adjustment of Payments) Order 1981 |
S.I. 1981/506 |
The New Valuation Lists (Time and Class of Hereditaments) Order 1987 |
S.I. 1987/604 |
APPENDIX
APPENDIX
(This Appendix is not part of the Regulations)
There are set out below the amendments made by the Local Government Finance (Repeals, Savings and Consequential Amendments) Order 1990...
