Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1346
RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND
The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2001
Made
4th April 2001
Laid before Parliament
4th April 2001
Coming into force
5th April 2001
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 43(6B)(b) and 143(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988( 1 ), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order, which extend to England only, may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 5th April 2001.
Amendment to rateable value limits
2. For article 3(1) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1997( 2 ) there shall be substituted the following:
“ 3. —(1) The amount prescribed as the maximum amount of the rateable value for the purposes of section 43(6B)(b) (mandatory relief for certain hereditaments) of the 1988 Act shall be—
(a) in the case of a hereditament a part or the whole of which is used as a public house or petrol filling station (as each is defined in article 1(2) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Public Houses and Petrol Filling Stations) (England) Order 2001 ( 3 ) ), £9,000:
(b) in the case of any other hereditament, £6,000. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
4th April 2001
1988 c. 41 . Section 43(6B) was inserted by the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29) , Schedule 1, paragraph 2. The powers are devolved in relation to Wales to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672 ); see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1.
S.I. 2001/1345 .