Rate-product Rules, 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1959/258 |
| Year | 1959 |
1959 No. 258
The Rate-product Rules, 195913thFebruary 1959
19thFebruary 1959
23rdFebruary 1959
The Minister of Housing and Local Government, after consultation with the local authority and the associations of local authorities with whom consultation appeared to him to be desirable, in exercise of his powers under sections 9 and 58 of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925(a) (the relevant provisions of the said section 9 having been extended to London by section 120 of the Local Government Act, 1948(b), and applied to precepts of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District by section 121 of the said Act and the said section 58 having been applied to London by section 7 of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928(c)) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following rules:—
1. These rules may be cited as the Rate-product Rules, 1959, and shall come into operation on the 23rd day of February, 1959.
2. Rules 3 to 9 shall apply in relation to precepts issued by county councils and the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District in respect of any period beginning on or after the 1st day of April, 1959.
3.—(1) The Interpretation Act, 1889(d), applies to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(2) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires—
"year" means a period of twelve months beginning with the 1st day of April;
"rate" means—
in relation to the City of London, the poor rate;
in relation to the Inner Temple or the Middle Temple, any rate in the nature of a general rate; and
in any other case, the general rate, including any amount levied together with, and as an additional item of, the general rate;
"rating authority", outside London means the council of a county district or any council of a county borough to whom a precept is issued by the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, and inside London has the meaning assigned by subsection (2) of section 7 of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928;
"rating area" means the area of a rating authority;
(a) 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 90.
(d) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
"precept" means a precept issued by a county council or the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District;
"gas hereditament" means a hereditament which a Gas Board is, under section 6 of the Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955(a), to be treated as occupying in the rating area;
"electricity hereditament" means a hereditament which an Electricity Board is, under section 12 of the Local Government Act, 1958(b), to be treated as occupying in the rating area;
"gross rate income", in relation to any area and to any year, means the total of the gross amounts appearing in the rate book as assessed in respect of hereditaments in the area by the rates made in respect of the year, or any portion thereof, increased by—
(i) (a) the amounts which under statutory provision fall to be taken into account for the purpose of ascertaining the proceeds of any rate for the year in respect of contributions in aid of rates;
(b) the amounts of any payments...
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